Characteristically Speaking
Jo TaylorEssays, poetry, and stories from a novelist and retired ER nurse: nursing, the writing life, intuition, the Woo, and the private courage of ordinary women.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 159 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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My Writing Process
A corner of my desk.
I spend most of my time thinking about writing. This has been going on in my head since loooong before I actually started writing things down. My dad said I was a catastrophizer, which is exactly what it sounds like. S...
Reinvention: Interview Questions
Jo Taylor and Alex Poppe here. We met through Substack and while our readership is diverse, we agree on the important, critical, absolutely essential quality of writing about and reading human stories. We aren’t pushing any agenda by docume...
My Front Porch: October 2026
Q&A about anything and everything.
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Novelist (Mimi and Maurice, Margaret of Thibodaux) and retired ER nurse, writing about nursing, intuition, and the private courage of ordinary women.
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