In this mini episode, Cate and Kit give you four tips in five minutes. The topic: writing skin. Resources:Skin Color Website
Today we’re discussing how to make sure you’re representing LGBT+ (or Gender and Sexual Minorities- GSM) folks in your writing,
This is a growing list of books, movies, podcasts, and comics I’ve consumed that have at least one LGBT+ character. At some point, I will write detailed reviews for some of these.
Lullaby in Fracktown, Lilace Mellin Guignard Above you can find a link to this week’s poem, as well as the podcast episode itself. Below, you’ll find the script for the episode. Analysis and Context Lullaby in Fracktown is a villanelle by Lilace Mellin Guignard. A little background on the author. She lives in rural Pennsylvania, …
One Fire, Quenched with Another, by Jeremy Michael Clark Above you can find a link to this week’s poem, as well as the podcast episode itself. Below, you’ll find the script for that episode. Analysis Jeremy Michael Clark read this poem for the Poem-a-Day podcast. In the “About This Poem” section, he says he took …
Married Love by Kuan Tao Sheng (translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung) You and I Have so much love, That it Burns like a fire, In which we bake a lump of clay Molded into a figure of you And a figure of me. Then we take both of them, And break them into …
For our first Poem of the Week, we read Javier Zamora’s “Second Attempt Crossing.” It’s about Zamora’s journey to the US at the age of 9 and the person who helped protect him. Kit gives insight into structure, meaning, and takeaways for your poetry.
According to the Webster’s Dictionary, accountability means “an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions.” I can tell you right now that I am that when it comes to work. If I say I’m going to be there, I will be. It’s been something I have striven for, but only on the outside. …
Kit and Cate talk menstruation, why it might not be addressed much in fiction, why it’s important to include it in our writing, and how we can use menstruation in our stories.
I have three big gripes with the storytelling in this show. I won’t go over all the good stuff that’s done or the awesome way they just drop people of all ethnicities and races just about wherever in the story. I will only focus on the bad stuff, because that’s what’ll stick with you and is what you can learn from.