Literary fiction in a penguin branded orange vending machine

A Penguin Books vending machine, with a selection of books I wouldn’t have expected to see at a train station

I read something like that the other day 🤦‍♀️ Didn’t conjure an inspiring image in my mind.

Anyone else the only household member who knows when the trash needs to go out? 🤨

Priest by Sierra Simone. Graphic scenes but with feeling/connection between the characters.

Haven’t thought of that show for years! Still remember the song, though 🙂

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I do the same with Royal Match 🤦‍♀️

Yes! I posted about this a week or so ago - hate seeing the disinformation from anyone.

I ordered one of those learn to crochet kits. Supposed to arrive Monday. This post scares me a little 😂

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There are plenty of actual things happening with the US government to promote fear/frustration, so it’s discouraging to find some of the posted vial or stupid quotes/actions attributed to government players are not actually true. It only takes a minute to investigate content before sharing.

I don’t know any writers in person, unfortunately. My goal was to churn out a first draft of a new story then return to revise a different one with fresh eyes. I’ve decided to just move forward with the revision. It may be that when I do that, the ideas flow for the other story 🤷‍♀️

Stuck and super distracted, I guess. Haven’t given up, though 🙂

Haven’t worked on it in so long I don’t think it’s actually a work ‘in progress’ anymore 😱

Cat lying on treadmill

Worried the treadmill wouldn’t get used, but I shouldn’t have… #cat #catsofbluesky

I definitely lean toward succinct. A lot of description tends to bore me as a reader and I start to skip lines.

Yikes 😬 I like to use them, too.

I’m a Canadian who has lived in the US for almost 30 years. My life is here. Too young to retire and leave. I appreciate hearing how other countries are pushing back.

Which reminds me of that episode of Friends 😉

Ha! I had a scene where a dog died and the editor said she could barely get through it. That was the point - I wanted to think of the worst thing, most impactful thing that character could do. So I guess that was a win? I grew up reading Black Beauty and Beautiful Joe. Maybe I’m calloused 🤷‍♀️

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Read a book and then read a few reviews. One discounted it as ‘trauma porn.’ It was about a woman drawn into an emotionally abusive relationship. I’m wondering if I’ve read a book that wouldn’t be considered ‘trauma porn.’ Fiction level conflict is often traumatic, isn’t it? #writingcommunity

Happening at my house, too 🙂

Eating cookie dough is my riskiest behavior 😂

Writing a blurb has no business being so hard. Everything feels like I'm trying to channel movie trailer guy.

"In a world where the only thing between a book and a willing reader is the blurb on the back, sassywrites has to find her way through a morass of blurby cliches."

#writersky

Read a blog post from an agent (2022) about how most women’s fiction submissions don’t have high enough stakes. If the stakes are purely emotional, the story is ‘in trouble.’ I like to read/write character driven, mostly interior stories. Is this type of story doomed? #writingcommunity

Yes, and I was very thrown off by it at first because I’m new to this type of platform and thought someone actually wanted to connect 🙄

There have been many through the years. Elizabeth Berg and Elizabeth Strout are two authors I admire very much - love their character driven stories.

Just finished Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg. Working now so not reading, but here is my cat chilling with his stuffed cat.

I envy people who can make themselves write creatively. I need to have a scene in mind before I sit down or I just stare. Have wondered if it would be productive to write something other than my WIP - if not inspired, do a prompt instead to build a habit?