This year, Sachini Poogoda has been fulfilling her dream of writing a novel over the course of her Honours in English Literature. Now that the draft is complete, the next steps await: polishing the draft, and getting it published.

We put Sachini in touch with Jessie Tu, whose debut novel A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing was published by Allen & Unwin earlier this year to great acclaim.

They found common ground talking about their experiences as Asian women and the portrayal of Asian women in fiction, and Jessie offered some great writerly advice about getting published, dealing with rejection, and how to be productive working from home.

Stay tuned to the end: Jessie shares details about her next novel, and Sachini also talks about the novel she wrote for her Honours - which she finished in just four months!

This is the last episode of Future Self for 2020. See you again next year!

Sachini Poogoda is graduating in December 2020 with an Honours in English Literature from the Australian National University. She earlier completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Genetics, also at ANU.

Jessie Tu is the author of the much lauded and highly successful book A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, published by Allen & Unwin. She is also a journalist with Women's Agenda.

Follow Jessie on Twitter @Jess_Tu2

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