No, I'm not going to write about...
Word's been making it's way around the lab where I work that I wrote a book coming out soon. This has led several people to say, "So are you going to be writing about the lab? About people here?" They nudge me with elbows and wink.
No. No. I'm not going to write about people at work, or the place, especially not while I work there. This is for multiple reasons:
1. Lawsuits
2. I've never written a story in which my work setting would be an appropriate backdrop.
3. I tend not to write stories around a place; I write them around characters.
4. I spend eight hours of my waking life, five days a week, there. That's plenty. I don't want to revisit it during my off time.
5. You can work at an amazing place where crazy cool work is being done and have nothing new to say about it.
6. Lawsuits
So there you have it: why I'm unlikely ever to set a book or story in my work setting.
Oh, and there's that other reason. I generally resist people's efforts to tell me what to write about.