Realities of Writing: the anti-Hallmark Movie Truths

There are lots of romantic notions of what the writerly life entails, the kind of stuff promulgated by frothy fictions. My favorite example…

There are lots of romantic notions of what the writerly life entails, the kind of stuff promulgated by frothy fictions. My favorite example is the 2021 Hallmark Christmas Movie Christmas She Wrote. It stars Danica McKellar as Kayleigh King, a popular advice columnist for the New York newspaper Empire City Globe, my all-time favorite name for a fictional…