Craft Chat Is your premise juicy enough to share over the back fence?

[Pamela Jo]

I will not back down from my revelation that all literature essentially stems from gossip. Madame Bovary being some of the juiciest. So I am now taking that conviction to the cookie bakery. Evaluating my first pages ... is there enough tea spilled to warrant the next table listening in?

‘It’s how we make sense of the world’: why are we all obsessed with gossip?

In her new book, Normal Gossip podcaster Kelsey McKinney explores our unending interest in talking about other people behind their backs

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sedayne]

I will not back down from my revelation that all literature essentially stems from gossip. Madame Bovary being some of the juiciest. So I am now taking that conviction to the cookie bakery. Evaluating my first pages ... is there enough tea spilled to warrant the next table listening in?

‘It’s how we make sense of the world’: why are we all obsessed with gossip?

In her new book, Normal Gossip podcaster Kelsey McKinney explores our unending interest in talking about other people behind their backs

www.theguardian.com

I'm with you on this.
It's how we make sense of the world and how we make sense of ourselves. As a reader, my favourite books adhere to this. As a writer, I absolutely want to spill the beans about my characters' shenanigans.