Make the Art, Ignore the Market (aka “Are We the Sausage in This Metaphor?”)

A Challenge to Listeners!We're going to spend two hours or less drafting something new. We want you to do it too! Send us your fast writing at [email protected] with the subject line: Two Hour Story and we'll read it on the next storytime episode! That means you, David. These are the prompts (via Writer Threads) that can inspire your new work:Enemies to Lovers:1. Bold of you to assume that I'd care.2. You're hurt? Why are you always hurt?3. Get behind me.Angry Confession:4. Trust me, I am also trying to understand how in the shit this happened.5. Tell me how I'm supposed to unlove you, then. Tell me. Spare me.6. "Since when did you ever care about me?""Since fucking forever you idiotic dunce."Sickness or Injury:7. Tell me where it hurts.8. Can you carry me?9. Why didn't you tell me it hurt so bad? This week on Write Your Heart Out, Kayla and Rachel pick up where their AI debate left off—spiraling from apocalyptic predictions about tech to the timeless question: why do we write at all? From Steven Pressfield’s wisdom about creating art even on a deserted island to the very real resistance of reorganizing your medicine cabinet instead of writing, the conversation swings between hilarious tangents and raw honesty about staying creative when life gets messy.The duo also dive into upcoming writing contests (Book Pipeline Unpublished, the John Steinbeck Award, Driftwood Press, and Writes of November’s two-sentence challenge) and challenge themselves—and listeners—to draft something new under a two-hour time limit for their next Storytime episode. Plus: murder-mystery birthday parties, navigating writer’s groups with your kid’s teacher, and the eternal sausage metaphor for publishing.If you’ve ever felt bogged down, distracted, or just plain stuck in your writing life, this episode will leave you laughing, nodding, and maybe even pulling out your label maker before you get back to the page.Please subscribe, rate and review! New episodes every other Wednesday.E-mail us your short story at [email protected] us on instagram @writeyourheartoutpod Leave us a message at 650-260-4885