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?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/11/normal-gossip-podcast-kelsey-mckinney-book

 

[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?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/11/normal-gossip-podcast-kelsey-mckinney-book

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.