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Learn to Write Like You Mean It

A twice-weekly newsletter by Vicky Quinn Fraser: The MicroBook Magician

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Cats, smartphones, and funny feng shui 🐈 🎋 [Friday Goodie Bag]

Reading time: 4.34 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, I beg you not to use AI to outline your book. This isn’t another “I HATE AI IT’S EVIL BLAH BLAH BAN IT” email, I promise. I use AI most days, it’s very useful. But I never, ever, EVEREVEREVER use it to kickstart my creative process. I don’t use it to outline my books or articles. I understand why people do: the blank page is a tough thing to face. It’s hard work to create something from nothing. But here’s a little secret: We’re...

about 19 hours ago • 5 min read
Photo of a small hard-back book titled “Fucking Apostrophes” on sage green cloth with black lettering and scrollwork.

Reading time: 4.28 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Someone — I can’t remember who — gifted me a splendid little book. (thank you if it was you) It’s a 62-page, cloth-bound hard-back, beautifully designed, and just 105 x 158 mm. Pocket sized. It’s the content, though, that makes it a true MicroBook. It’s a book on grammar… but that’s far too broad a description. There are many, many books on grammar out there. Many, many of them are deeply boring. And out of date. (because grammar...

2 days ago • 5 min read

Reading time: 2.52 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, “I didn’t have time to work on my book, I had a huge pile of ironing to do.” I’ve just made up this quote to illustrate the ridiculousness of societal norms and expectations and to bring you this life hack: stop ironing. Seriously. Stop it. (Unless you like ironing, in which case, crack on. My brother, the little weirdo, likes ironing. If it’s a leisure activity, by all means do not let me yuk your yum.) My cat peed on my ironing...

3 days ago • 3 min read
Testimonial from Ade Larigo about how awesome MicroBook Magic is

Reading time: 1.33 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, You’re the Ellen Ripley of your timeline. The Luke Skywalker. The Regina George. (But Ripley is the coolest) It’s not that everyone else is an NPC (don’t be that person)… But if you’re going to make things happen in your world, for you and the things you care about, you need to harness that main character energy or forever be the sidekick in your own life. Which means taking control of your narrative. Writing it down. Using it to...

4 days ago • 2 min read

Reading time: 3.06 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, When I sat down to write about MicroBook Magic this time, I got stuck. Because honestly, look at the state of the world right now. And so inviting you to come and join me on a book writing adventure felt a bit… weird. But you know what? The world is always on fire in one way or another and despite that, creative folks keep creating. WE’RE STILL HERE. It’s what we do. Creating work that matters is an act of REVOLUTION. It’s an act...

5 days ago • 3 min read

Reading time: 4.37 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Overheard on the internet: “I don’t have anything new or interesting or unique to say — who’d read my book?” Oh my love. My sweet, sweet grasshopper. Come hither. Sit. Stay awhile. What you just said about not being interesting or novel — what you’re likely thinking when you consider writing a book — simply isn’t true. You DO have something new to say. You ARE interesting. Your take IS unique. (Assuming, of course, you’re not...

8 days ago • 5 min read

Reading time: 3.14 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, The council of unfinished drafts will see you now. They are disappointed, but this is exactly what they expected. Endless drawers, real and digital, filled with ideas that never grew legs, first chapters that withered and died, and the dusty remnants of writerly enthusiasm. I know this, because I gave up counting my unfinished drafts a very long time ago. They are legion: a swashbuckling pirate romance I created an entire world...

9 days ago • 4 min read

Reading time: 2.18 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, “A library isn’t just a collection of books — it’s a collection of things people needed to say. Or, better, a collection of things people desired to say.” Of all the things I’ve read this week, this quote stopped my heart for a moment or two. Ailene Cuthbertson, author of The Faring Light Letters, writes a beautiful newsletter which you should definitely subscribe to, and this week she wrote about the trials and adventures of...

10 days ago • 3 min read
Testimonial from Laura Chamberlain reads: When I worked with Vicky, I loved every single second of it. In fact, I loved it so much I’m looking to sign up for more. When I signed up I wasn't sure whether I would actually be able to achieve what I set out t

Reading time: 3.11 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, If you’re writing a book but you’re stuck in a rut, lemme ask you this: what have you tried so far? Maybe you’ve taken a course. Read a book. Bought a blueprint. Paid for one of those “write your bestseller in a weekend” bros… and been burned. So, when you see my MicroBook Magic program, you’re a little… sceptical. I get it. You’re smart to be sceptical — a lot of coaches and writing programs are full of crap. Or well-intentioned...

11 days ago • 3 min read

Reading time: 2.25 Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, When he came to me for book coaching, I was really excited — he was full of energy and had a message and a GREAT story. (This guy is really well known in his industry now, you might recognise his name if I mentioned it) I lined up all my pens and pencils and rulers and rules about “how a book should be written” and “what a book coach should do” and we got started and… …it did NOT go well. He wasn’t following my plan. He wasn’t...

12 days ago • 3 min read