It’s #WriterWednesday and I want to talk to writers. What are the things you put in your work that heal the parts of YOU? The story elements that pull at something inside you, that connect to your real world and your heart?

Mine… is food. Keep reading.

I’m always detailed about food in my books, making sure my audience knows my characters eat and eat well. Since I write fat women I always make it clear my FMCs are not embarrassed or ashamed to eat. They’re not afraid to eat, and they don’t treat food like they have to earn it. That’s important. My focus on the food & my characters enjoyment of food is a nod to how much better my own relationship with food has gotten as a fat woman.

That’s the thing I write that connects to me. What’s yours?