Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life | Terry Freedman

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Flash Fiction, Stories, Novellas, Novels, and Math

Weekly letters about slow, creative living from my island home in Shetland. Sharing everyday magic and memories, photographing the little moments & forever chasing the light.

All Day Long

By Jim Cummings

Short fiction from a seasoned observer of humans.

Very simple stories that are immeasurably poignant.

- Terry Freedman

10 DOLLARS

By Ted Levi Toldman

What happens if you invest $10 daily? Every day I invest $10 in stocks and cryptocurrencies to show you how fast you can earn $1 million by investing.

Very doable investment advice

- Terry Freedman

June's Writing

By June Girvin

Welcome to the conversations. I talk about lots of things. Life, books, nature, knitting, or what's happening in the garden, sometimes memoir from 47 years of nursing. Wide-ranging ruminations. I usually post at the weekend, sometimes on Wednesday too.

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Slaking your fictional thirst, weekly.

Mitchell’s Mind-bending Variety Puzzle Brain Dump

By Mitchell Allen

Let's talk about creating puzzles and brain-teasers.

Marple’s Substack

A crime writer's corner

RenoQueen

Be smarter and informed about architecture, design and renovation.

TRBM

By Jody J. Sperling

Connecting readers and writers.

Curmudgucation

By Peter Greene

What's going on in the world of education

A Narrative Of Their Own

By Kate Jones

Discussions on 20th Century Women's Narratives and Contemporary Culture

Honesty is the Best Probably

By John Bluff

In this newsletter I share embarrassing stories of personal failure. Someday I hope to run out of them.

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

The Splendid Mess

By Amanda Clark

Finding the funny, absurd, and insightful moments in the messy, crazy, sometimes mundane day-to-day.

PubStack Success

By Karen Cherry

A weekly newsletter for new Substack creators: how to start, how to grow, and how to monetize by a $15K Substacker.

PubStack Success publishes advice that is both clear and doable.

- Terry Freedman

Everybody Talks

By Rebecca

Linguistics made simple. On multilingualism, language learning, and the rich linguistic world all around us.

Mary Tabor "Only connect ..."

By <Mary L. Tabor>

The arts, books, movies, all things literary--and a course: Write it! How to get started and (Re)Making Love: a memoir

I'm enjoying exploring Mary's Newsletter very much. Her motto, Only Connect, is amply reflected in the guest posts and cross-posts. Mary's own articles are analytical and instructive. A great newsletter.

- Terry Freedman

Dear Reader, I'm lost

By Rebecca Holden

Letters from a writer navigating the world with absolutely no sense of direction.

Beautiful writing, engaging stories

- Terry Freedman

Campfire Notebook

By Bryn Robinson

Weekly stories and art that explore science communication, research and medicine.

Always interesting, nice writing style (friendly), covering a wide variety of topics.

- Terry Freedman

Writer's Notebook

By Matthew Murray

My Journey through Life, where you'll hear funny stories from my past and the current day. I write fiction too. Don't forget to check out my Art, which is posted on some of my posts.

Lit Think Podcast

Reclaiming literacy through pop culture. Two English teachers utilize literary analysis to talk about pop culture and media.

Very thought-provoking

- Terry Freedman

Soaring Twenties

By Thomas J Bevan

A collective of essayists, storytellers, poets, photographers, painters, filmmakers all creating and collaborating to make the internet human again.

The Matterhorn: truth in fiction

By Dr. Kathleen Waller

how to layer stories with ideas, culture, places, and texts ⬩podcast and original fiction from author and academic Dr. Kathleen Waller

Release and Gather

By Holly Rabalais

Letting go of what was to make room for what’s to come.

Shimmering Fractals by Katie Anderson-Morrison

Notes on stories, writing and all the little ways that inspiration strikes.

Castles in the Sky

By Charlie Becker

Introspection, Inspiration, and Idiosyncrasy from Charlie Becker

Interesting and honest writing

- Terry Freedman

Dear Reader

By Gwenda Bond

Author Gwenda Bond's newsletter with all the skinny on new and upcoming books, plus reading, and writing life updates. Now including divorce. I want to connect with you, dear readers, on all the things we've thinking about on this here rock.

I really enjoying reading these articles from a published author. The really nice thing is that Gwenda always responds to comments.

- Terry Freedman

Catalectic

By Alicia Kenworthy

A newsletter for people who read fiction -- or at least, like the idea of themselves reading fiction.

Knots in the String

By prue batten

the observations of an introvert...

The Recovering Academic

By Joshua Doležal

Thought pieces on higher ed and interviews with academics pivoting to industry.

The Bus

By Bryan Padrick

Learning is a journey. Enjoy the stops along the way.

I like the insights and detail, and the biographies of writers -- especially David Foster Wallace (one of my heroes)

- Terry Freedman

Record—Reflect

By Brandon Merrill

A newsletter (from a teacher/human) so that I reflect on my living. Usual content: photography, education, music, spirituality, literature.

Interesting and incisive articles by a soon-to-be teacher

- Terry Freedman

LEAVES

By Sharron Bassano

Short character-driven fiction, evocative travel tales, memoirs and a lot of laughs. Always free. Receive a couple of 🍁LEAVES in your email twice a week. Guaranteed better for your mental health than the daily newspaper.

About Those Commas (and some other stuff)

By N. M. Scuri

about writing, reading, and getting your academic/composition questions answered. And stories (I write horror. It'll be fun!).

Technocomplex

By Mark R DeLong

Notes, links, and experiments on our complex relationships with technology. Gleanings, too, from recent reading and thinking.

Writers' Haven by Christine Wolf

By Christine Wolf_The Latest

A writing coach exploring life through essays, interviews, tips, and raw vulnerability. Paid subscribers get peeks at my memoir-in-progress and will have their names featured on the SUPPORTERS page of the published book.

The Serene City

By Susan Cooke

I write to understand and combat stress in cities, and to help improve public mental and physical health, slow climate change, protect nature, promote empathy, and produce stories about great teachers and other memorable people, and about music.

The Creator's Compass

By Renee Faber

Podcast, writings, and personal stories of adventures into the deep.

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

By Miller’s Book Review 📚

Remarkable Reading on the Regular

Great reviews: in depth, considered, well written.

- Terry Freedman

Critical Consent by Robert Urbaschek

Learning more about the societal and philosophical questions of our time. Find truthful, nuanced, and well-researched reporting & creative writing about the state of the world. Goal: stimulate independent and critical thought in each of us.

Even though I don't always comment on Robert's posts, I always enjoy them. They are incisive, intellectually challenging and well-written.

- Terry Freedman

Roger's Writings

By Roger Clapper

A Sarcastic Look at Current Events - with a Hint of History.

Thoughtful, thought-provoking and always well researched

- Terry Freedman

Front Row & Backstage

By Brad Kyle FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE

"The best music history writing online!" says Mike Degen of "Deeg's Poems" on Substack. It's rock, records, and radio, as we go behind the scenes of my years in FM rock radio and the record biz in the '70s & '80s!

Some great music playlists by a chap who knows his stuff, has good taste, and a good sense of humour.

- Terry Freedman

The Problematic Pen

By J.M. Elliott

Uncomfortable truths | Uncompromising fiction | The Steppe Saga: Historical novels set among the Scythian nomads of the ancient Ukrainian Steppe

Deplatformable Newsletter

By Paul

Subscribe to get practical small business marketing lessons that will get you new subscribers, customers and supporters. Not the worst way to spend a couple of minutes today.

Interesting stuff, different from elsewhere

- Terry Freedman

The Real Sarah Miller

A newsletter for people who like the work of (the real) Sarah Miller.

Unschool for Writers

By Alison Acheson

Playing and working with words: finding your own way to fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and writing for young people

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Saving Culture (from itself)

By Jenny Holland // Saving Culture From Itself

Personal politics for the politically homeless. Writing on life, love and the toxic culture that's driving us all mad.

Emily Posts News

By Emily Miller

A newsletter from inside D.C. about power, politics, culture, health, breaking news, the Second Amendment, celebs, media, royals and recommendations.

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

Exploring writing, travel, and literature.

Very incisive with plenty of food for thought.

- Terry Freedman

The Commonplace

By Thomas J Bevan

Fiction and essays on the extraordinary nature of ordinary life.

Lots of variety, and very incisive

- Terry Freedman

The Glinner Update

By Graham Linehan

All the latest on gender woo from beloved Internet personality, Glinner

moviewise: Life Lessons From Movies

By moviewise 🎟

Improve your life one movie scene at a time! Discover valuable life lessons hidden within your favorite films. Subscribe for weekly insights on personal growth inspired by the big screen. #MovieTherapy #MovieRecommendations

Pirate Wires

By Mike Solana

technology, politics, culture

The Muse

By Birgitte Rasine

On the creativity, ingenuity, and untapped potential of humans in an AI-obsessed world

I really like Birgitte's writing style, which is witty and light even while dealing with pretty serious topics around, mainly, AI. Her breadth and depth of knowledge on the subject is awe-inspiring, and her articles are well thought-out and thought-provoking. Definitely a must-read for anyone interested in, or concerned about, artificial intelligence -- and how many writers aren't?

- Terry Freedman

Just Enough to Get Me in Trouble

By Lyle McKeany

Hanging out at the intersection between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. Personal, vulnerable, and sometimes funny essays from a husband, father, and disability advocate, delivered whatever days he wants at exactly 8:08 am PT.

Collected Rejections

By Valorie Clark

A newsletter about writing and the writing life.

Interesting writing and interesting prompts

- Terry Freedman

Personal Papers

By Carol Sill

Writing from the intersection of imagination and reality. Reflections, ideas and commentary. Keeping it personal. Manually curated.

On Substack

By Substack Writers

Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.

This is a great resource for writers

- Terry Freedman