Bücher von Frankie Rollins

The most essential tools for being a writer are already inside you. Do You Feel Like Writing? cultivates the artistic confidence to harness your intuitive brain, rethink time, embrace your experiences, and build a sustainable writing life. Guiding you through explorations of your imagination, this book tells tales about the writing life and offers inventive prompts to help you understand why and what you want to write. You are the muse you seek! This book invites you to: study how your imagination worksaccept the material that comes to youconsider your dreams and daydreams as writing materialfind constructive feedback, reject lousy feedback, and advocate for your workinvestigate rituals for your writing practicestrust that you have what you need to write

This flash fiction novella, The Grief Manuscript, illustrates the dream-like, annihilating, and repetitive gestures of a dying marriage. The story recasts the emotional range of grief using metaphorical images and remarkable characters in brief, poetic scenes. The recently separated narrator inhabits a series of temporary houses as she faces the devastating and radical identity changes that come with divorce. Grief activates the narrator's demon, who appears in the form of a small monster, the Burden Animal, who torments her with her previous humiliations and belief that she is a burden to those who love her. Magical realism offers images of personal torment, where the narrator's head falls off, spiders crawl up her throat, her tongue escapes, and the fields of her psyche burn. It isn't until the narrator accepts the full expanse of her grief that she can see a way to move forward to what is "next."