Sharp Objects: A Child Caught In the Horror of Femininity
Flynn is one of the modern masters of revealing the horrors of the home. Her take on serial killers is one of the best.
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Koji A. Dae
Flynn is one of the modern masters of revealing the horrors of the home. Her take on serial killers is one of the best.
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You don’t have to read in your genre and you can absolutely make space to daydream about things not connected to your work-in-progress.
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When you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why? It makes sense to explore success after exploring values. Values are well and good for inspiring actions and guiding choices. But what can I celebrate? What are those little (or big) milestones that I am working towards? It’s also a timely topic because yet again I’ve been talking with my friends in multiple writing groups about how difficult it is for writers to “make it” today. We constantly have to move the goalposts. My friends keep encouraging me to redefine writing as a hobby, but it’s so hard to let go of thinking…
Finally got a serial killer short story in my series… and it was well worth the wait. Make sure to check out the link to the Drabblecast version.
Today’s prompt: exploring values and principles in my life and writing.
It was a fun exercise. What values drive your writing, and how do you express them?
What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail. Having “stopped” the serial on serial killers (just kidding apparently, I have at least one more next week on a short story), I was trying to figure out what to do with my blog. For so many years I’ve tried to “keep it professional”… only about writing and reading. Which is what you do when you’re a professional writer, right? Everything comes back to the writing. But today I stumbled on the Jetpack daily prompt, and I had a flashback to my days journaling when I was a teen. I was an obsessive journaler when I was a…