@vanessafogg.bsky.social hope you and your family have a good weekend

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And every story with a subversive twist owes its success to the hundreds of formulaic stories that set the reader's expectations so that this story could subvert them. Frozen's twist doesn't work without the foundation laid by Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and on and on.

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A reader reads all books in conversation with all the other books they have read before. My novel is never a stand alone novel. It is book five hundred twenty six on some reader's life series. And I cannot know how a reader's previous reads impact my novel in their mind as they read.

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Overloading my to-write queue but I don’t know any other way to live: - Profane Illuminations: Gore Poetics - On the eco-weird/gothic/surreal for REDACTED - On weird art for Agita - Against Mark Fisher for LARB To pitch - On Sofia Samatar - On Kai Ashante Wilson - Walter Benjamin and weird fiction

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And the book proposal! It turns out the secret to working on the book proposal is having a million other things I should be writing, then working on the proposal feels like procrastinating

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