I'm so thankful to @Minholkin for a wealth of posts on always keeping one's core guiding principles in mind.
Recent news cycles have normalized the extraordinary in a way that makes it difficult not to be trapped in a state of relentless reaction to the latest data expressly crafted to wind us up. How can we hold steady amid that fray?
I wrote a story about this a few months back. I thought it might offer comfort tonight, so I posted it somewhere free-to-read. #Fiction
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-missing-lamb-a-short-story
I made myself a coffee and sat outside to read your story. Thank you so much for sharing it. I was quickly drawn in, and it will certainly stick with me today. Loved the choice of Lamb as a surname...
🤗 Thank you both for taking the time with it. I'm grateful though not surprised at all that the core theme resonated.
I'll be writing more non-SFF this year, even though my plan until year's end is also to submit a lot more of the (better paying) genre pieces, too. I used to write gen-lit quite often, but I went where the markets took me.
Still, there's a lot of power in this form, eh? We all know a town like Hollister. We might even live in one, too!
Thanks so much again.
@MLClark
Thank you so much for sharing this--I want to read it again, and then again
"Holding steady amid the fray" is so important 😔
It's unpopular but ultimately leads to better outcomes when it can be achieved