113: Unhinged – Picking Which Drafts to Polish (and Which to Cast into the Fire)

Fresh from vacation, we talked about the dark art of editing. How do you know which pieces deserve your time, when to let stories sit for months (or years)? What about the stubborn love we feel for broken drafts no one else believes in? We offer our advice, dear reader, on this and more.Then we shared stories for Unhinged—a prompt that inspired creepy mechanics, ominous flights, and characters teetering right on the edge.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.