HeyJaredSouthern Fried Gothic
Julie Liddell Whitehead lives and writes from Mississippi. An award-winning freelancer, she covered stories from 9/11 to WorldCom to Hurricane Katrina.
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Programming Break (opens the original)
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We will be returning to regularly scheduled programming after a brief recess for unexpected maintenance issues. Thanks for reading Southern Fried Gothic! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</for
Thematic Shifts (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking for a while that my work-in-progress, Dirty Little Secrets, is so fundamentally different from Hurricane Baby and Looking for Home, and another difference came up yesterday in response to a writing prompt on Mastodon. Sometimes, one of the writing game hashtags I follow posts a prompt that’s just a single word that we then respond to how ever we want. Yesterday’s prompt was “Gauge?”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-15320121972
Writer Friends (opens the original)
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Popular culture used to show a lot of writers creating in isolation. Maybe holed up in an attic garret in a decrepit house on the Seine in Paris’ Left Bank. Or comfortably ensconced in an upper floor of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Or writing with an eyebrow pencil on toilet paper in a bathroom in the Midwestern suburbs. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1704177094042-71a098cae1fa?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHw
Practicing (opens the original)
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Okay.<img alt="MacBook Pro on top of brown table" class="sizing-normal" height="3495" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1496181133206-80ce9b88a853?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyfHxs
Taking a Break (opens the original)
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Trying to sort myself out at this point. See you next week!Thanks for reading Southern Fried Gothic! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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