108: Curmudgeon – Writing Grumpy Narrators & Lovable Jerks (feat. Stuart Miller)

We embraced our inner cranks this week, talking about how to write characters who are difficult, unlikeable, or just plain mean, without turning your readers off. Naturally, we also talked about Scrooge, subtext, and whether being a literary curmudgeon means you’re doing something right.Around the 20:45 mark, we read stories for Curmudgeon, which featured sourpuss narrators, snide footnotes, and some impressively passive-aggressive worldbuilding.Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.