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Romance writer, ghostwriter, and playwright sharing the messy, magical, in-between moments of love and creative life. Host of The Romance Room podcast.
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healthy misogyny in zach cregger’s resident evil (opens the original)
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There’s something about horror movies that gets my romance brain working. First, it was Backrooms earlier this year and its masterful wielding of character specificity. The latest entry in this marriage of horror and romance is Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil and the protagonist, Bryan (played by Austin Abrams), a hapless courier tasked with unknowingly entering the contaminated zone that is Raccoon City. Bryan has many of the hallmarks of what we know of the modern softboy, a term that spans the b
creativity is subjective. you need something objective. (opens the original)
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In 2023, I ended my survival career in teaching and childcare because it sopped up my creative energy. If you don’t have kids or have never worked with them, let me paint the picture: constant problem solving, coming up with activities or framing life lessons, mountains of emotional expenditure. I loved working with kids but I got to a point where the conflict with my creative world was so great that the next kids I wanted to work with, I decided, would be my own.1The choice to leap away from my
sharing your creativity is inherently traumatic (opens the original)
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“It’s like there’s a physical block in my brain,” I tell my therapist. “When I sit down to write, there is a wall I can’t seem to get around.”My therapist does parts work, otherwise known as Internal Family Systems which “teaches that the mind is naturally multiple—and that this multiplicity is healthy—because, like members of a family, inner parts can be pushed into extreme roles but also have valuable inherent qualities.”1Under this guidance, my therapist guides me away f
draft diaries #5: finished isn’t always better (opens the original)
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There is one piece of writing advice I give writers I work with far more than any other: Finish the draft.More often than not, this is advice to writers in the midst of their 1st draft. Getting to an ending of a 1st draft accomplishes two things: Finishing proves to yourself as a writer you can finish something. It doesn’t matter if it’s perfect, it just matters that it’s done. That is what makes your first draft good. Getting to an ending means you have told yourself the story from stem to ster
i dedicated august to finishing my novel (opens the original)
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I didn’t spend a lot of time cogitating over A Novel Month before I decided to do it. It was just over a week before the end of July and I just knew I had to do something drastic. Usually, decisions of this nature have a high probability of flaming out before I reach even the halfway mark of whatever promise I made to myself. However, this one stuck. It stuck for three main reasons: 1. I built community around it. When I originally announced August was going to be my Novel Month1, I had several
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