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how creative work is crafted is so interesting…
most of my writing starts of as a stream of consciousness-esque voice memo—
which i then transcribe (structured as one long paragraph, the same way i spoke in the voice memo) into my notes app,
from there, said notes, subsequently become the first draft structure,
of what eventually ends up being published;
this is exactly how i wrote my most recent newsletter about the underground music scene:
the underground is surfacing
most of my writing starts of as a stream of consciousness-esque voice memo—
which i then transcribe (structured as one long paragraph, the same way i spoke in the voice memo) into my notes app,
from there, said notes, subsequently become the first draft structure,
of what eventually ends up being published;
this is exactly how i wrote my most recent newsletter about the underground music scene:
the underground is surfacing
Jul 18, 2025
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⌨️It’s similar to Scrivener (which I LOVE I’m just too cheap to buy a license) but it’s a markdown text editor that’s free and open source. I edit as I go and once I’m reasonably satisfied, i post it on Substack, usually in the middle of the night. I SHOULD give it a final once-over and send it to trusted reviewers in Google Docs before I publish and I’m planning to start doing that; I just get too excited!
I will often go back and read it over after publishing and continue to make little tweaks based on my own observations or feedback from my brilliant friends, like I’ve done with my recent first installment of my serialized autofiction story, Love Roses: The First Hit, which is a contemporary gothic fairytale about Wendy‘s journey through a gritty Neverland with her Lost Boys… I replaced initials with names lol. I promise I won’t do something that big again I guess that’s why people edit 🙈
I will often go back and read it over after publishing and continue to make little tweaks based on my own observations or feedback from my brilliant friends, like I’ve done with my recent first installment of my serialized autofiction story, Love Roses: The First Hit, which is a contemporary gothic fairytale about Wendy‘s journey through a gritty Neverland with her Lost Boys… I replaced initials with names lol. I promise I won’t do something that big again I guess that’s why people edit 🙈
Dec 23, 2024
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It takes me a long time to get round to writing anything but I've got another draft in the works which is about the weird emptiness and ecstasy of summer which will be out sooooon. Btw this ask finally got me to name this newsletter because I've had this phrase circling in my head all weekend and I think it's a perfect fit
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📖(excerpt from pending draft of my fantasy novel, "The Puppeteer")
I’d seen this before. At a smaller scale, sure, but the feeling was the same. Dread, like the ice cold water of a flood, rose up around people's feet. They sloshed through it, bearing the weight of their terror as their pantlegs absorbed the dark, metaphorical liquid. As buildings fell in the distance and the ground shook, the dread rippled through the crowds and splashed at their edges. Maybe that’s why I felt so numb. This wasn’t new to me. A surprise maybe, but nothing I hadn’t experienced before. It’s not that the events didn’t matter to me, it wasn’t even that they didn’t phase me, I just couldn’t get myself to panic the way I once had.
Everyone showed so much love for my last piece of writing I shared on here, so I figured I'd give a sneeze of something I wrote today that I really loved. If my writing interests you, I do have a newsletter you can sign up for on my profile :)
I’d seen this before. At a smaller scale, sure, but the feeling was the same. Dread, like the ice cold water of a flood, rose up around people's feet. They sloshed through it, bearing the weight of their terror as their pantlegs absorbed the dark, metaphorical liquid. As buildings fell in the distance and the ground shook, the dread rippled through the crowds and splashed at their edges. Maybe that’s why I felt so numb. This wasn’t new to me. A surprise maybe, but nothing I hadn’t experienced before. It’s not that the events didn’t matter to me, it wasn’t even that they didn’t phase me, I just couldn’t get myself to panic the way I once had.
Everyone showed so much love for my last piece of writing I shared on here, so I figured I'd give a sneeze of something I wrote today that I really loved. If my writing interests you, I do have a newsletter you can sign up for on my profile :)
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we come to this place…to yap.
we come to pi.fyi to laugh, to cry, to care. because we need that, all of us.
that indescribable feeling we get when we’re able to customize our profiles and we see creativity we’ve never seen before.
not just entertained, but somehow reborn together. dazzling recommendations on a huge desktop, or mobile, screen. kindness that i can feel.
somehow, social networking feels good in a place like this.
our pi.fyi community feels like the best parts of us, and being perfectly imperfect feels perfect and powerful…
because here…we are.
pi.fyi, we make social media…better.
we come to pi.fyi to laugh, to cry, to care. because we need that, all of us.
that indescribable feeling we get when we’re able to customize our profiles and we see creativity we’ve never seen before.
not just entertained, but somehow reborn together. dazzling recommendations on a huge desktop, or mobile, screen. kindness that i can feel.
somehow, social networking feels good in a place like this.
our pi.fyi community feels like the best parts of us, and being perfectly imperfect feels perfect and powerful…
because here…we are.
pi.fyi, we make social media…better.
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today i held open the door for an elderly couple and the husband said “thank you so much miss!” with so much shock & appreciation in his voice & on his face, i immediately responded “of course!”
no one should be that surprised to receive a no brainer act of kindness…
get kinder today, right now—not later ! ! !
no one should be that surprised to receive a no brainer act of kindness…
get kinder today, right now—not later ! ! !
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via: stores of the year 14 (2003)
via: stores of the year 14 (2003)