I took the age-old writing advice and began a newsletter for an audience of one exactly 1 year + 1 day ago. I invented awards, broke down publishing, made up literary terms, found excuses to talk about film, and read a shit ton of books along the way. bit.ly/48DqIFt

One small datapoint of why the Trump years were so awful is that many writers just set their "contemporary" novels in 2015 as to avoid dealing with all of the shit you'd have to work around if you set it during his presidency (he's akin to the Pandemic in that way)

Major News: Democrats pull way ahead in the polls* *at the Dallas airport bookstore

Try shorts maybe

Blacksmithing at 88% really makes me doubt the methodology here

About as right as anyone else

Yellowstone, Beyonce and Post Malone making country albums, Taylor Swift's outfit last night, "the west" is clearly back in fashion, but that doesn't mean westerns or country ballads are coming back anytime soon: dearheadofmine.substack.com/…

Honestly this is very impressive in terms of effective criticism

There’s a perfect amount of cream cheese, always too much when you get plain

Can’t help but hear Katy Perry’s “woman’s world”as an English soccer chant: 🗣️Sexy 🗣️Confident 🗣️So Intelligent

When did horror become the only reliable genre—Night Swim and Immaculate both an A+ B movies—any other good new horror recs (last 2-3 years)?

The Golden Rule of Author Photos open.substack.com/pub/dearhe…

Submerge the “I” timelessly good advice

It’s funny after the whole “virtue signaling” complaining for years Utah is banning Sarah J Maas, like 1/1,000,000th of the internet has dirtier content, what does banning books really even do!? If a teen wants to read a book let them read a book, they can handle it

Has recycling other people’s jokes and ideas become worse during the Olympics or has it always been this bad 🤔