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Books that make me want to flip a table
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Reading time: 1.46 418 words Hey Reader, If I see one more productivity book by a rich white dude with a wife-wife and a work-wife and an underpaid VA in the Philippines, I swear to all that is bro-ly that I will flip a fucking table. Do you know what is MUCH more interesting than a guy with plenty of time and money telling us we all have the same 24 hours in a day and we just have to use it better? A single mum with two dogs, two businesses, and ADHD, who is running a thriving business and still manages to go surfing once a week because she’s genuinely figured out how to make her time work best for her. THAT’S the book I want to read. Cos if she can do that, she’s got skills and tips I need to hear, and probably a hell of a story too. So I do not want to hear “Who am I to write a book? Who wants to hear from little old me?” No simpering false modesty, please. No bs about how you “don’t have an interesting story to tell.” Excuse me, you do. The best stories are the most relatable ones, and those are grounded in the minutiae of our everyday lives. The mundane. The normal. We think “sexy” has to mean “Hollywood blockbuster” with high drama and villains. It doesn’t. We pull the sexy and the drama out of the shared moments of our humanity and we make them resonate. Time was, the publishing gatekeepers would only put your book out there if your face fitted. That's not the case anymore. You can write your book. You can publish your book. You can market the shit out of your book. You can do all that any way you like and you should. Your voice matters .Your story matters. Especially if it’s not exactly the same as every other story out there (I’m looking at you, AI lovers and formulaic business book bros). So use the voice you have to write the damn book because I promise you, your book will change lives — not least, YOUR life. Are you ready? If so, the Creative Playground is a REALLY good place to start.
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Reading time: 2.01 477 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Have you ever ruined a perfect moment by screaming at it? I have. Just last week in fact. I was swimming out of the Witches’ Cauldron sea cave on the Pembrokeshire coast with Joe and my friends, when a seal popped its head up a few metres behind us to watch. My reaction? To scream like a twat and accelerate out of there. To be fair, the seal wasn’t fazed at all. It just bobbed there and watched us weird bipedals...
Reading time: 0.58 230 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, I’m in that weird post-holiday marshmallow-brain state of what day is it and what am I doing here. This is not helped by the fact that it’s 29C today and I just want to read my book in the sunshine and admire my new ankle bracelet made from silver and sea glass and little silver starfish that I bought from St David’s market. I was on the hunt for bits and bobs for my journal and I found, among the surfer stickers and...
Reading time: 3.43 884 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Say it with me: MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. You cannot tell me that the algorithm isn’t literally (and I do mean literally) damaging our brains. I open up Instagram and LinkedIn (and I don’t even go near TikTok) to see the following in this order: “I asked ChatGPT” Frogs doing frog things Wars Ads for plastic shit from Temu Sabrina Carpenter opinions (at the same intensity as wars) Manufactured outrage about a vulnerable...