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I tried, and failed, to write about newborns when Peach was still new. I wanted desperately to capture the essence of the newborn period - a time in which we both wore diapers, in which I was so tired I didn’t know my own name, and in which I was punch drunk on love - before I was consumed in the daily drudgery that is older baby and toddler life -... See more
Charlotte (has) Baby Brainsubstack.com• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen... See more
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen... See more
Sublime
In a letter to a friend in 1899, Wilbur Wright wrote:
“I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man.
My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.”
In our recent... See more
Jackson Dahlsubstack.com1. The aim of my writing is never to make money. If there are opportunities, I will pay attention, but it is never the direct aim. I obsessively focus on other funding mechanisms such that I don't have to worry much about how to monetize writing.
2. I write for readers like me. I dislike a lot of the current trends in books. I think they dumb down... See more
2. I write for readers like me. I dislike a lot of the current trends in books. I think they dumb down... See more
Paul Millerd • Tweet
Such a great picture: Leap into the Void, 1960, Artistic action by Yves Klein.
Andy Adamssubstack.com
I am not one for ‘reaching out’ to people. I think it’s the Brit in me. It feels icky. Pushy. A bit entitled. But a few weeks ago I reached out via Instagram to an author whose name i had heard whispered about in certain writerly circles.
It was said she has purchased the old Provencal home of Robert Kime, the... See more
Farrah @Substacksubstack.com