Carly Waters

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680 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · Leveraging Surprise and Disruption · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, I made one cup of coffee.

And then my second one right now is tea because I'm like, how many cups of coffee can I drink before 11 a.m.

So this is an example of like, I think the writer was trying to be, you know, maybe, maybe they're trying to think like, how do I elevate this?

Or how do I save some suspense for later?

But I really strongly feel that the first page really just genuinely seems like a normal day in this person's life, right?

It's like, she wakes up, it's morning, it's early, sun's rising, she's foraging.

Why is this day important?

not like any other day.

I don't find out until much later, oh, what she's foraging for are things that are poisonous.

And that's the whole point, is that she's foraging these specific things, trying not to get caught.

It's... I just felt it too subtle, to be perfectly honest.

And it's, again, not that anything's wrong with it, but I...

felt like I read it closely.

And yet I still, again, feel like I'm not fully sure what's happening.

So I would just, you know, if there's anything we can just like tighten a little bit, tighten, tighten, tighten the screws, just so we can really make sure that everybody fully understands what is happening.

One of the things that I think would really help here on the opening page is if you allude to the concept of how does she feel about this being the last time she's going to pick plants in this location?

how does she feel about the last time she's going to watch the sunrise from this vantage point?

Like something to the illusion of like, this is the last time she's doing this because she knows what she's going to kind of cook up, you know, pun intended on future pages.

So something about that, I think would help.

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