#miserylit

[laynaki]

A small snippet of a misery lit i had made. It’s called starcrossed lovers. She walks over to the ledge turns around crosses her arms and falls. zio dashes towards her. “nooooo!” And jumps off the ledge after her. Her face turns from relief to somber, he reaches for her, grabs her, and whips around holding her tight they look eachother in the eyes “why zio?” His expression is full of happiness as if they weren’t falling “because “i love you.” She smiled, tears in her eyes “i lo…” splat she survived, but he didn’t “zio!!!” “Zio!!!” “Zio wake up you’re not dead!!!” He lied there in a pool of his own blood cold and lifeless. Should i finish the beginning of it?

[nicolagriffith]

The voice of each piece is born on the first page

In which I disagree with George Saunders' suggestion that a writer's unique voice emerges during the editing process.

Image description: Black background with, on the right,  a black and white headshot of a short-haired white woman at a microphone, and, on the left, gold-coloured text reading, “George Saunders proposed on his substack that it’s in the editing process that literary voice emerges — the more a writer edits the more they’ll make choices different to other writers, resulting in a voice and style…

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