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Be less creative, write stronger stories (Bite Sized Method)
Last week an old schoolmate of mine emailed me out of the blue.
Jun 27
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Literary Style as Smelling Salts (and ninety other metaphors)
Literary Style as Smelling Salts.
Jun 20
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Literary Style as Smelling Salts (and ninety other metaphors)
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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…
Jun 13
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Fighting Fevers, Winning Medals and Getting Choked to Sleep. (Part Two)
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Billy Strings Teaches you how to write.
I take a lot of my writing cues from guitar playing.
Jun 6
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Hamish Kavanagh
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May 2025
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.
May 30
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Sometimes you need to shove the gearstick in reverse (bite sized method)
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Why Fiction is so hard to find on Substack
(If not here, where else?)
May 23
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Why Fiction is so hard to find on Substack
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Fiction Glossary for "The Sudden Walk"
Where to start
May 23
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Fiction Glossary for "The Sudden Walk"
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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.
May 10
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Southern Hemisphere Gothic
I’ve coined a new term.
May 3
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Hamish Kavanagh
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April 2025
The Abattoir (A short story) + an experiment and a showcase on editing.
I want to try something a bit different today.
Apr 25
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Hamish Kavanagh
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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.
Apr 18
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Hamish Kavanagh
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Building Out Characters in a different way (Bite Sized Method)
Earlier this year I made a plan to piece together a collection (or two) of thematically coherent short stories with an end goal of publishing them all…
Apr 11
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Hamish Kavanagh
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