As part of my research for my gossip project, I'm reading books on the topic of shame and reputation.
Some of the illustrations have been...vivid, painful, sharp, striking, and helpful.
When I get to writing the book on gossip, I want the illustrations to have a realness to them, an authenticity. I don't want to shock or titillate, but I do want to show how this is part of the nitty-gritty of real life.
Many books in the genre that I'm working in can have a very artificial feel, namby pamby, unreal.
I want nitty gritty, not namby pamby.
Which, by the way, is another reason for readers like you to turn in a gossip story.
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