How to write like Jessica Wildfire

4 writing lessons from the gloomiest and doomiest Medium writer.

Wild as fire, her words burn on everyone’s tongue and leave some of us deeply deeply hurt yet wanting for that hurting to be continued.

Is she real?

Is she fake?

Is she only good for a hot take?

Whoever Jessica Wildfire is in real life — on Medium, she’s a superheroine who’s up for a good fight. She fights the rich. She fights the powerful. She fights the white heterosexual man. Simultaneously. All of them. Alone. The good thing — all three villains are actually just variations of the last.

The boys messed things up, a lot.

Jessica Wildfire is here to put the boys in their place.

The villains want to make Jessica Wildfire the anti-hero because she’s…emotional? sharp? or that meaningless word bitchy? The villains, perhaps, don’t know that emotions happen when you truly care about stuff. A human being is emotional, naturally. A human is a bitch.

Sometimes she’s dramatic, sometimes she’s cold-minded, sometimes she’s right and sometimes she’s wrong. Yet, I’m sure Jessica Wildfire tries the best she can to shake up the status quo and make people think about things the way they…