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A Writer's Diary

Toby Litt
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Writing wisdom, advice and encouragement for every day of the year.

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A Masterclass on Making Substack Work for You

It would be very wrong not to ask you along.

Seeing as it’s you who has taught me most of what I have to share.

Here’s the blurb:

Since the living death of Twitter, Substack has become the main platform for writers to connect with rea...

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On the Right Attitude to Writing

Sometimes you’ll find you have no heart for writing; I can’t put it any more intellectually than that.

Alone with what you’ve failed to make.

You are dead to it and it is dead to you because it is it and you, to your shame and dismay, are...

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What’s the Difference Between Novels, Short Stories and Poems?

What follows is a generalisation; a useful one I hope:

The novel and the short story, but also the novella, take on the task of depicting society in different ways. This may sound vague, and for society I might have said the world.

To put...

24 days ago
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What’s the Difference Between Novels, Short Stories and Poems?

It is readers who truly make the difference between novels and short stories. Because, beyond the analogies, there is the decisiveness of audience.

Short stories are different from novels in this way: short stories have better readers.

Or...

25 days ago
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Accidental AI Chat from 1996?

AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

That was the Guardian headline yesterday. Fairly self-explan. And this was the paragraph that really got me:

Asked by the Guardian to review some of the...

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