Welcome to Foreplay & First Drafts: A Dark, Seductive Journey Into Writing Psychological Thrillers

[00:00:03] Ever wondered what happens when a writer falls in love with the murderer she's creating? Or why the sexiest scenes always seem to involve emotional danger? I'm Kitty Winslow, and I write psychological thrillers where people kiss, kill, and keep secrets, sometimes all in the same chapter. [00:00:23] Welcome to Foreplay and First Drafts, the podcast where I'm dragging you into the beautiful mess of my creative process as I build the Stillwater series one emotional crime scene at a time. Each week, I'll take you behind the curtain of psychological fiction, from crafting characters with damage that feels delicious to building tension that makes your readers forget to breathe. We'll talk about the psychology of obsession, the slow burn of forbidden desire, and how to make your readers feel it in their bones when everything falls apart. This isn't just craft talk, it's emotional archaeology. It's figuring out why we're drawn to stories that hurt so good and how to write them in ways that leave fingerprints on the soul. [00:01:08] New episodes drop every week. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts. The Foreplay is just beginning, and I promise it only gets messier from here.