124: Proteus – Revising Poetry & Balancing Editing with Creativity (feat. J.W. Surface)

Special Guest J.W. Surface joins us for this episode!Check out J.W.'s book Something Dark and Others here: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/something-dark-and-othersAnd check out Gargoyle Publications here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GargoylePublicationsWe spent this week talking about the strange joys of revising poetry—line breaks that refuse to cooperate, words that suddenly look wrong, and that drive —it's not a compulsion, I swear!— to tirelessly edit draft after draft. . J.W. Surface joined us to chat about novels a decade in the making, typewritten poems, and how hard it is not to tinker forever.Then we shifted (see what we did there?) into stories inspired by Proteus, the Greek myth’s shape‑shifting prophet—complete with quests, bargains, and an epic fight with mortality itself.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.