Reading time: 1.10 274 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Don’t listen too hard to what people say; watch what they do. I don’t think many people really truly believe they can write a book, even though they’ll say, “I want to write a book.” Here’s the reality (and honestly it’s a mini tragedy): Most people will never even start their book. And most of those who start won’t finish and publish. And that’s really sad, because whenever someone writes a book, someone else is so...
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Reading time: 1.44 411 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, You there. I see you, sitting at your desk, staring at the blinking cursor. It’s glaring at you, isn’t it? You can see it. Judging you. You should be writing, it sneers. What’s wrong with you? Can’t form a thought? Pfft. You may as well not bother. Why don’t you just open Instagram again and doomscroll until your eyes bleed? That’s good for your mental health, muppet. Yeah, yeah, tell yourself it’s “research” if it...
3 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 2.18 545 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Using AI to write for us is the stupidest way to use it. We have this tool at our disposal that can, on a global scale, help fight climate change, revolutionise medicine, surgery, and diagnostics, leaving doctors free to improve patient care, eliminate poverty. On a more individual level, it can automate boring, time-consuming tasks, reduce admin, transcribe and edit meetings and calls so they make sense… And we’re out...
4 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 4.41 1,113 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Hitting publish on your book is a bit like walking through a wasp convention covered in jam holding a sign that says “please don’t hurt me!” They say writing a book is brave, and it is… But SHARING it is the real hero move when it FEELS like 90% of the internet is screaming abuse into the void like it’s an Olympic sport. Just because something’s loud, doesn’t mean it’s true. I read today that only around 7% of...
8 days ago • 5 min read
Reading time: 2.34 607 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, We’re four days into MicroBook Magic Season 7 and — as always — I’m already deliciously excited and inspired by my writers. Not everything about doing what I do is always roses, but THIS part? The part where I get to learn for the first time what my clients’ ideas are, and how they see the world? Then the part where I get to dive right in? This part is ALWAYS incredible. Let me give you a little taster of the books...
9 days ago • 3 min read
Reading time: 2.06 498 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, You know those dreams where you’re running away from something, only everything is in slow motion and you can’t scream and nothing works and then you wake up just before the monster eats you? That’s how writing has felt for me this year. I have had absolutely nothing to say for myself. I was reading through a bunch of newsletters from one of my favourite writers (Ash Ambirge) and just… wilted. It’s not that I didn’t...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 1.46 417 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, 🌤️ An increased sense of self 👀 A new way of looking at the world 🗝️ Realising the true value you have to offer ✨ Seeing — really seeing — your true skills, knowledge, and talent (May also cause giddiness, tears, laughter, rage, delight, and a propensity to panic-eat cheese.) And that’s just the side effects. Because you also get A BOOK. A real live book you can hold in your sweaty little hands! Everyone’s main aim is...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 2.00 474 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, What can 763 elephants do? Launch a rocket into space. On July 20, 1969, humanity launched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (and some others) into space on Saturn V. To get off the surface of our planet, it took 4,578,000lb of fuel — which weighs the same as 763 elephants. (Aside: I love the thought process here. “How can we visualise that much fuel?” “Elephants.”) There was more fuel than rocket in that rocket. But once...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 5.21 1,272 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” If you’re American, you’ll know these words well — from the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson. And if you’re not American, the pursuit of happiness will probably be fairly familiar to you, because it’s embedded in our culture. It’s sold to us thousands of times a day by companies promising that if we’re just a little bit thinner or more beautiful or...
15 days ago • 5 min read