When I said I was a meat eater, they told me, "Roast yourself." Cannibalism, fat, mental elf and a writer's dilemma

“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it, the confidence will follow.” Carrie Fisher

Have you ever read any of Carrie Fisher’s books? She’s dead now. I read Post Cards from the Edge (1987) when it first came out and I’d just left home. Books don’t really stick in my mind, but this one did. It’s not just the compelling chaos and glamour of her Hollywood life, she writes with grim humour about the the downs and ups of her love life, actin…