Birgitte Necessary
I write queer fiction that lives where the living and the dead blur. Ghosts appear in all my work, sometimes literal, sometimes emotional, always disruptive. Across timelines and settings, I’m obsessed with how queerness reshapes haunting, and how haunting reshapes us.
My debut novel, Pavlova’s Ghost, pulls readers into a world where ballet becomes a battleground for identity, obsession, and a love story history tried to bury.
In the world of my blog I get into queer identity, survival, and the stuff that shapes us as people and writers. Each post ends with a “Crooked Craftwork” section where I give you quick ways to write those experiences into your own work.
If you like your world a little haunted and your queer stories fierce, step inside my head.
Want more ghostly chaos? Follow me on Instagram for the full mix of what I get up to when the veil between the chapters thins.
Reading fiction is research, right?
Du Maurier`s books hit both my current WIP vibe and the one in development. Now I have to squeeze myself into some kind of time vortex so I can actually read them.
#writersofinstagram #ghoststories #research #amreading #daphnedumaurier
My story doesn`t live outside of me, it lives in me, but sometimes my brain needs my body to wake it up.
When I`m staring at the cursor more than I`m staring at the words, I walk. Movement fires the neurons holding my story hostage.
I`ve for certain worked out entire scenes on a walk. Pavlova`s Ghost has been written as much on my feet as at my keyboard.
#walkingaround #novelist #writing #chicago writinglife
Sinful Sunday 🖤
The books that were written in the dark so we could read them in the open.
Before queer lit had a shelf, it had a hiding place. In gothic portraits and vampire seductions, in banned novels and fever dream prose. Queer writers smuggled desire past the censors and called it literature.
This week`s Sinful Sunday: the sapphic and queer classics that haunted the our world long before we had words for what we were feeling.
🕯️ Carmilla — Le Fanu
🕯️ The Well of Loneliness — Radclyffe Hall
🕯️ The Picture of Dorian Gray — Wilde
🕯️ Nightwood — Djuna Barnes
And the one that inherited all of it:
🕯️ Pavlova`s Ghost — a ballerina who risks possession to dance again, a forbidden queer love so powerful it haunted three generations of women, and a self so fractured it became the perfect place for something else to live.
#QueerGothic #SapphicHorror #QueerLitHistory #DarkQueerReads #SinfulSunday
