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What if I just tried operating in a different mode?
Welcome to the 190th issue of Subtle Maneuvers. Please note: I’m moving our next Book Club meeting back one week, to Sunday, July 26, at 11am PT / 2pm ET. We’ll be discussing Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story, which I haven’t bee...
Worm Zoom week is coming, join us!
My virtual coworking club reconvenes tomorrow
Quick reminder that Worm Zoom, my virtual coworking club, reconvenes this week, Monday–Friday, from 6–8am Pacific / 9–11am Eastern / 2–4pm UK time.
Longing for a Crash
Last week, I learned that Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day in a month.
I was reading a conversation between the novelists and , who was talking about her predilection for “vomit drafts”—writing the first draft of a novel in a f...
The best book on writing I’ve ever read
When Michael interviews a writer, it feels like psychoanalysis, but the writer is the analyst, and Michael the confessor, and it’s very relaxing because you sit and listen to him give this rich interpretive testimonial about your novel, a...
How to move from doubt to confidence
Welcome to the 187th issue of Subtle Maneuvers. Last time, I shared a magnificent pep talk from the artist Sol LeWitt to the perpetually self-doubting sculptor Eva Hesse. This week: Some further thoughts on doubt inspired by a recent interv...
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