Things not to write about

THE NY TYRANT GUIDE TO NOT BEING A HORRIBLE WRITER IN THE YEAR 2010 includes
- a wedding
- lace
- mental institutions
and says

I’m still waiting to read a really good scene about somebody getting their ears pierced. It can be done.

The Rejectionist includes
- crime spree ending in small dusty Mexican town
- cubicle jobs
- being a twenty-year-old musician with existential torments who lives in Brooklyn

But couldn't you combine them all?