Episode 34: The Thorn Necklace by Francesca Lia Block
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Happy 2019, Wayfinders! January was a heck of a year, but we still want to celebrate some sunshine and self help and return to a favorite author. It’s going to get meta up in here, while we talk KonMari, the Unicorn Club, writerly obsessions, playing 12 Questions with our WIP, and self help writer gossip. In this episode Content NotesThis is a book about the oeuvre of Francesca Lia Block, so everything present in her books is present here: parent death, grief, eating disorders, mental and physical illness, miscarriage, terrible boys and terrible men, rape culture, antisemitism. There’s also a long rumination on David Bowie and his influence on the author’s writing and art, so caveat lector. Show NotesParasol Protectorate Fan Group Heavenly Creatures Francesca Lia Block’s 12 Questions to Help Structure Your Novel, around which the book itself is structured Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages Happy Birthday Judy Blume! Best Babysitters Ever by Carolina Cala Racefail ‘09 Readalikes Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey by Deena Metzger Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Spirit by Susan G. Wooldridge Current Reads Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson The Belladonna University series by Tansy Rayner Roberts This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. (CC Marie Macula, Carey Farrell 2019)
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