Episode 265 Everybody Suffers, Not Everybody Can #Write About it with Stacy Kim

Stacy Kim is a freelance writer who&#8217;s beginning to see some real success in her career, with bylines in Real Simple, The Washington Post, Wired and more. We talked to her about getting started as a writer, finding her topic and her expertise, and learning that it&#8217;s not enough to have a story&#8212;you have to give the editor a reason to want you to share it, and the reader a reason to want to read it. <br/><br/>Links from the Pod: <a href="https://www.susanshapiro.net/events.html">Sue Shapiro&#8217;s classes</a> (highly recommended)<br/><br/>Stacy&#8217;s essays and other work:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/lighthouse-method">Lighthouse Method in Real Simple</a><br/><br/>hoarding in WashPo<br/><br/>I found Korean culture sexist and stifling. Then my kid fell in love with K-pop:<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/07/korean-culture-teenager-fan/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/07/korean-culture-teenager-fan/</a>A visit to Seoul during Covid changed my opinion of a country I once despised<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/seoul-korea-covid-pandemic-america-b1816535.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/seoul-korea-covid-pandemic-america-b1816535.html</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/productivity-got-done-list/">wired Got Done List</a><br/><br/>#AmReading<br/><br/>Stacy: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593129463">If I had Your Face</a> by Frances Cha<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250251305">Miracle Creek</a> by Angie Kim<br/><br/>Ethan Cross, Jeffrey Selingo<br/><br/>KJ: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781984855565">Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty</a> by Lauren Weisberger<br/><br/>Sarina: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780143120612">Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World</a> by Jane McGonigal<br/><br/>And check out Stacy&#8217;s website <a href="https://www.lifejunctions.com/">www.lifejunctions.com</a><br/><br/>In t