Welcome to Foreplay & First Drafts – where psychological thrillers have emotional orgasms and my characters commit relationship crimes before breakfast. I'm Kitty Winslow, and I'm dragging you into the beautiful disaster of my creative process. If you've ever found yourself writing love scenes at 3 AM while researching "untraceable poisons that taste like cinnamon," congratulations – you've found your people. Each episode is part writing autopsy, part craft seduction, and part confession booth for the emotionally chaotic characters living rent-free in my brain. We're talking character development that leaves fingerprints on your soul, plot twists that feel like emotional whiplash, and the delicious psychology behind why we want our fictional lovers to be both dangerously broken and heartbreakingly tender. I'm building my Stillwater series from the foundation up, and I'm bringing you along for every existential crisis, every "what if they kissed while hiding the body?" moment, and every time I fall in love with a character I'm planning to emotionally destroy. For writers craving stories with psychological depth and readers who want to peek behind the rough draft – welcome to the delicious disaster. We're still in the foreplay stage of this podcast, darlings, and I promise it only gets messier, sexier, and more psychologically complicated from here.