Spring break writing wins, a faux lip ring verdict, and the announcement of a big summer challenge: both hosts commit to finishing their first drafts by Labor Day. Krisserin wrote three times this week and Kelton locked her gothic novel's timeline and finally wrote the prologue she didn't know she needed. They also get into Kazuo Ishiguro's “Never Let Me Go” (craft: yes, ending: no), Juliet Marillier's “Daughter of the Forest” series that BookTok surfaced from 1999, the screen-time-as-wealth discourse, and why a playwright's Japanese jail stint made them briefly reconsider their productivity strategies.

Books mentioned:
The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Unaccustomed to Grace by Lesley Bannatyne
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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