When I draft a chapter by hand, something magical happens. It doesn’t matter if I am writing a piece of fiction or a blog post, like I am now. It
My magic lies in my ability to transform letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into scenes, scenes into stories, stories into worlds. My magic lies in always knowing
Like most Substack authors, I started with big ideas of what I hoped to accomplish with my newsletter — insightful essays about my favorite topics, a buzzy community of fellow
I collect quotes from fiction like pieces of broken jewelry, except instead of stashing them in the vanity drawer, I squirrel them away in notebooks and my Notion account.
You’ve done it! You’ve made it from “Once upon a time…” to “The End” with a path of 80,00 or 100,00 words — even more if you’ve written a fantasy