Whipping My WIP
It's not enough to do the reading. You have to do the writing, too. Here's how I've been applying the things I've been learning in a new short story.
Ok, Kids, have you been doing your homework?
If you haven’t read Ask the Bard #38, then you’re behind and you won’t understand why it’s about to feel like I’m picking up in the middle of a conversation.
I am.
It’s about illustrating mental condition.
Because at the heart of it, Kids, story is about the impossible magic of sharing someone else’s consciousness by inhabiting their perspective.
Ready? Grab your vice of choice and settle in to follow me. We’re going on a ride!
I'm in a salt bath high as a giraffe’s balls and thinking about this story I’m working on. The real thing that's been a huge struggle is that when I went dragging the river for the memories of the degens of blackouts past I discovered that the bougie neo-Rococo trash squad had been through tidying things up and painting everything faun beige.
The fucking Midwestern bullshit runs deep, yo. It's disturbing.
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