SK: If a detective looked at your browser tabs right now, would they arrest you, call an exorcist, or buy you a weighted blanket? FF: They’d buy me the blanket, interrogate me, then quietly close the tabs and pretend they never saw them. When you’re stuck on a scene, grappling for a metaphorical weapon, do you precision-strike like a sniper, or spray and pray like Trump? Precision-strike. I’ll stare down one sentence until it gasps for air and convince myself that swapping one adjective will fix my entire broken plot. What’s a word you’ve used in a draft that you…
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Macbeth was written yesterday, Macbeth is being written today, and Macbeth will be written tomorrow.
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He walked around the mohallah mostly in silence, called out “Mishtiiiii” in a deep baritone when he felt like it.
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For starters, Prakash can’t cook. His coffee, though drinkable, is substandard. And oh yeah, the glaring issue – he’s a dude.
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There is one piece of writing advice that never fails: When in doubt, begin with a sex scene. Then do some writing.










