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My favourite books of 2021
#5: Plus 21 things that got me through the year
Maybe social media isn't for me
#11: Featuring advice on being a creator online, Warsan Shire on writing for herself, why we need to educate hiring managers on shitposting, Escapril…
How Jenny Tinghui Zhang fell back in love with writing
#12: Featuring how writing about trauma is an act of subversion, how the cry-laugh emoji has become a right-wing emoji, newsletter & YouTube…
To make good stuff, you need to make bad stuff
No. 14: Pointing your way: books I've read in 2022, an animated poem, an interactive rush-story and more
Birthday blues and red flag books
#1: Featuring a round-up of everything I wrote, read, viewed and thought worth sharing from August.
The Terrorgraph
#3: Featuring a new poem, analysing just my punctuation, gaming for a non-gamer, excellent books I've read, Scots word of the day and more.
Write lists
#2: I started and dropped several projects this month, but I made some lists, wrote about how noisy my brain gets and have read some great stuff.
Drawing badly and loving it
#9: Featuring writing about love while the world falls apart, an illustrated guide to writing a novel, a video short story from Stuart Hardy and more
Today I reach my 26-year breathing streak
No. 18: Pointing your way... the progress you can't see, a Gen Z rewriting of Harry Potter, my favourite TikTok and more
Redirecting my creative energy
No. 17: Pointing your way... why we need to talk about the politics of desire, absurd trolley problems, old Hollywood bloopers and more
My year in books and links, 2022
No. 22: Pointing your way... 15 books I loved reading this year, my favourite links I shared, a fun little game in the footer and more
Naming places and this melancholy of mine
#4: Featuring three new poems I wrote this month, how to like what you write, excerpts from letters sent by Sylvia Plath, viewing recommendations and…
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