relaunching.

what if I told you I'm back?

It’s been a funny few months: lots of breakthroughs - though these have often felt indistinguishable from banging my head against a wall. I’ve been thinking to share some of that here, with an eye to figuring out how it can make for more intelligent reading, sharper writing, clearer thinking.

Expect weekly updates of what I’m reading or watching and how it’s influencing my craft. I’m also planning biweekly craft essays - cheat sheets for the common issues I see in student writing. There will be a paid tier, including craft exercises to accompany the essays. Most excitingly of all, I’m launching a monthly long-form essay on the deeper trends that I’m seeing in literary culture and the publishing industry.

There will be eclectic literary noticings, craft insights gleaned from teaching literally hundreds (bloody hell) of writing students, actionable exercises, and what I’m hoping will be some really interesting creative nonfiction (I go through the publishing wringer so you don’t have to!).

This has all been brewing for a long time. I’m excited.

As Doris Lessing told us:

Whatever you need to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.