The Visual Detective
Brooke — The Visual DetectiveAn antidote to "content."
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| Issues | 7 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 3 years ago |
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Solomon's Paradox... or is it?
I have a confession to make: I’ve been terrified of finishing this issue.
Yes, finishing.
Not starting or brain dumping or outlining or getting all the writing out.
I knew the main idea of this piece and what I wanted to write about it...
The Paradox of Perfectionism
Last week I was sick.
I won’t deter you with the unpleasant details, but I was in enough pain and discomfort that I had to rest a few days.
It’s still a mystery as to what caused it, but I’m okay now, thank God. Sometimes life just knock...
The Malcontents of Content
I’ve been struggling to publish this piece.
In my first Substack piece I shared the realization that I have so many ideas to express and how that motivated me to start writing again.
I knew I wanted to write about the idea and phenomenon...
"Who is in the details?" Redux
In the last issue I told you that I was bringing back my newsletter, The Visual Detective, from the dead when I started it last year. Like a 2.0 version, you could say.
Well, last year I wrote an issue about the idiomatic expression “the d...
Let's try this again...
I’ve done this before.
I started a newsletter last year, with Revue. I wrote 7 issues that I’m really proud of and that seemed to resonate with people.
But I stopped it. I quit as I was just getting started. Why?
Well, apart from the f...
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Weekly musings on the art of writing and editing, beyond the "content" machine. I promise to not be boring.
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