This is brilliant . . . but, of course, it is because you are brilliant! (Sharing this to notes ... so more people who do not yet follow the astute Jacquelyn Mitchard in this space, can enjoy her Substack, too!)
OH MY GOD: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to write Women’s Fiction—that is to say, stories about women read mostly by women—which are also considered to be “big books,” deeply intuitive and revelatory about the human condition, you must be in want of a penis."
The Queen has spoken. This is the energy I need these days.
This essay is on fire! If I never hear the ridiculous term, "chic lit" again, I will be happy. I am saving this essay for my workshop groups. Thank you, dear writer of the human condition.
Your opening line kills me. :-D
I could relate to so much of this.
You hit it out of the park. Thank you.
Love, Beth Gutcheon
This is brilliant . . . but, of course, it is because you are brilliant! (Sharing this to notes ... so more people who do not yet follow the astute Jacquelyn Mitchard in this space, can enjoy her Substack, too!)
OH MY GOD: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to write Women’s Fiction—that is to say, stories about women read mostly by women—which are also considered to be “big books,” deeply intuitive and revelatory about the human condition, you must be in want of a penis."
The Queen has spoken. This is the energy I need these days.
This essay is on fire! If I never hear the ridiculous term, "chic lit" again, I will be happy. I am saving this essay for my workshop groups. Thank you, dear writer of the human condition.
Touche