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IWSG: Genres I Don’t Tackle; RIP Peter Straub

 It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. I’ll be open about it right now: I’m going to keep this post short because I’m writing it at the last minute and the extreme heat wave my area has been getting has been wearing me out and so I’ve been trying to get to bed a little earlier. I don’t have time to take an afternoon siesta (nap) on the weekdays like they do in Spain and Latin America when the weather is extremely hot. In this post I’m going to stick to answering the September optional question and commemorate a famous author who unfortunately passed away recently.  Question of the Month The optional question for September is: What genre would be the worst one for you to tackle and why? For me there are actually two genres that I would not try writing in because th...