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I got a story published + Novel update (November)
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Walking a Tightrope Over a Field of Purple Prose ( Bite Sized Method)
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Novel Update (February) + why do I have so much trouble describing what my novel is about?
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Compassionate Exit (a short story)
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The Paradox of choice, the Freedom of Limitation and the flaws in both.
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Shooting at Moving Targets
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Literary Style as Smelling Salts (and ninety other metaphors)
Literary Style as Smelling Salts.
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Fighting Fevers, Winning Medals and Getting Choked to Sleep. (Part Two)
This is part two of a series I started a few weeks back which took Immanuel Kant’s “perception is reality” and likened it to what is going on during the…
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Billy Strings Teaches you how to write.
I take a lot of my writing cues from guitar playing.
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Sometimes you need to shove the gearstick in reverse (bite sized method)
I’ve stumbled into quite a prolific phase of writing at the moment.
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Why Fiction is so hard to find on Substack
(If not here, where else?)
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Walking a Tightrope Over a Field of Purple Prose ( Bite Sized Method)
As I work to expand my writing style in a new direction, I’m slower to pull out the paring knife and lean everything down than I used to be.
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Southern Hemisphere Gothic
I’ve coined a new term.
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The Abattoir (A short story) + an experiment and a showcase on editing.
I want to try something a bit different today.
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Fighting Fevers, Winning Medals and Getting Choked to Sleep. (Part One)
How the right framing allows us to be comfortable in environments that might otherwise be torture.
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The Sudden Walk
The Sudden Walk
Welcome to the Sudden Walk. Here you'll find: Fiction that's hallucinatory yet grounded in realism. Think Joseph Conrad meets Cormac McCarthy. Non-fiction posts documenting the road to getting published in real time. No guarantees, no safety nets. Enjoy
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