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#18 the heart & the chip
robots, a new book, sandworms, cats, and a very brief writing tip.
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February 2024

#17. Are you still writing?
Fainting, public speaking, exoplanets, pools & the AI sheriff
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January 2024

#16. ghostwriters, septic tanks, AI & new books
And I changed the name of this newsletter, too
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April 2023

#15. The Miss Amy Incident
the third entry in a series on what it's like to write a book
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#14. A thoroughly Floridian pirate
the second in a series on what it's like to write a book
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March 2023

#13. What's it like to write a book?
The first in a new series of posts on the multidimensional creative rollercoaster of moving a novel out of your brain and into the world
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November 2022

September 2022

#11. My dog book
Every middling writer does a dog book at some point. Maybe they’ve had some success writing journalism, or sold a few books, but then they hit a wall…
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#10. The rusty hook
How to grab a reader with a great first sentence
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August 2022

#9. How to Make a Story Travel
On the importance of distilling your idea to a single sentence.
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December 2021

#8. Manufactured Passion
How to get things done when the energy of delusion proves elusive
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November 2021

#7. The Energy of Delusion (and Kyrie)
On Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Adam Sandler, and an Unusual Point Guard
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