#85 To Paint the Forth Bridge, with J. W. Surface

Never-ending tasks? Sounds right up the writer's alley! We're joined again by J.W. Surface to discuss his latest book (available now!) and all things spooky. We even extended spooky season another week to do it. Heck, it's still getting darker, the leaves are whispering secrets, and something lurks in the shadows. Spooky is baked into the autumnal cake. Stories begin around the 17:30 mark and include the start of the next great American zombie novel; what happens when the prompt becomes too much of itself; a girl with recurring nightmares and dreams; a good ol' fashioned werewolf story; and a tale about being a woman. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:  Paint the Forth Bridge, To. To carry out an apparently endless task that has to be started again as soon as it is finished. The reference is to the railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in southeast Scotland, built in 1890 and legendary for its continuous painting process, each session of which traditionally takes four years to complete. See also SISYPHUSLike 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.