Show Us Your Wounds Writers and Stealing Seven King Cakes
carriejonesbooks There’s this really great book for writers by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi called The Emotional Wound Thesaurus. It came out way back in 2017. As they write in their…
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TROPE ME OUT, BABY: THE JUMP SCARE AND JANUARY IS A BLISSED OUT MONTH
There’s a lot of ways that trope is defined, but for us here on DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE, we’re going with the Grammarist’s definition, which is: “A trope is…
Aliens at the Mall Loving the Strange
This week, our first week back in 2024, we free styled. Which means? We talked about aliens at the mall. Shaun proudly drops the f-bomb at the end, so be…
Hate Hard, the Beer Poems, and Building the Life You Want
I’ve been going through holes of Reels and short-form videos at night lately, watching people remodel their house or home, decorate for holidays, and then, um, being an Amazon affiliate.…
Dig Deep and Baby Owl in the Christmas Tree
How to Dig Deeper in Your Scenes A lot of time, a writer will get feedback and it’ll say something vague-ish like, “Dig deeper.” And then the author cries or…