Blogs about Writing

Never in my life have I been so violently confronted by my brokenness than in the first year of separating from my husband in early 2023. My body and mind, both of which had historically …

I had tacos with Chase Jarvis earlier this year and he asked if he could record part of our chat on voice memos. I’ve written more about a lot of the topics we chatted about …

CW: Death, grief and politics Earlier this year, I attended the funeral of a friend who died too young of cancer. I stood around at the wake with other friends, unsure of what to say …

For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day (3.5 million per year), reading Electric Lit costs nothing. For the 1,500 writers who submitted their work to us this year, submission also costs nothing. …

Over in Every, I wrote about how writing is more than a method for capturing ideas, it’s a way of exploring them: By externalizing your thoughts, writing puts you into conversation with yourself. It’s always …

In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.

I’ve been a self-published author for over a decade now, but I’ve only been particularly serious about it since 2022. By “serious” I don’t mean “making nontrivial revenue,” but I do mean I’m making an …

I seem over the past couple of months to have become in the day job a kind of unofficial correspondent on the anniversaries of ‘notable fires in Norwich which had a profound social or cultural …

I have to confess that I bought this notebook mainly because I was feeling a little frustrated. I’d made a trip into NYC and was all excited to go to Goods for the Study and …

Part of what excites me about generative AI LLMs and GANs is the back-and-forth between language and representation. I’ve lately been playing more with MidJourney and Deep Dream Generator and a local install of Stable …

Hello everyone, this is a short housekeeping update episode. I wanted to point your attention to a new podcast project I've started. It's called CREATIVE JOURNEYS, and it's not so dissimilar to Travel Writing World. …

I have a story set in the modern day with supernatural traces, with three characters: a young boy, his bio dad, and his adoptive dad. The boy and his bio dad are Indian, the adoptive …