Trickster vs Martyr

These characters are almost always set at odds with each other—and yet it is that conflict that gives way to some of the most interesting character choices, emotional beats, and plot-rattling moments we have the privilege to read or see.

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Purity Culture, Meet Pirates

I was born with a tainted soul.

That is the knowledge I held close to my chest as I grew up: that I was an inherently wicked creature. A wretch. An irredeemable sinner from the moment I drew my first breath. Of course, there was one way out lain down before me…

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Finding My Way Back to Her

If you scroll back through my Instagram, you’ll see it—or rather, you won’t, because I archived the absolute shit out of my feed once I could breathe again, unable to stand the emptiness and uncertainty looking out from my own eyes—but somewhere between dreaming and doing, I lost my magic.

My wild woman.

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Yearn for Me, Darling

I am a lifelong devotee of slow burn romance. More than anything, I wanted them to be achingly, ferociously in love. To yearn for each other, knowing that might be all there is.

And that is why I love slow burn.

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5 Books That Made Me

In 2020, I started a challenge on Instagram called #5BooksThatMadeMe — see the stack above—in which the brief was to pick five books that had the greatest impact on you as a writer.

But my list has changed somewhat, since that first gauntlet was thrown.

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