TIP FOR SEPTEMBER: FIND AWE
cindyphillips Tripping over translation, Chekhov’s Gun, and Other Things I Learned This Week Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more…
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Come Away and Write: Why Your Next Writing Workshop Might Be in Kei Mouth
A workshop with a getaway attached I host small Workshop Getaways for Writers in Kei Mouth, designed for writers who want practical help with their writing but who would also…
When the Internet Turns Against You: What to Do If You Become the Subject of a Gossip Campaign
DOCUMENT FIRST, INTERPRET LATER There is a particular kind of modern nightmare that begins innocently enough. Someone makes a comment about you. Then someone else repeats it. A friend asks…
THE FIRST-TIME AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION TO PUBLISHING
From Finished Manuscript to Published Book A first-time author’s guide to beta readers, literary agents and ISBNs If this is your first book, the publishing process can seem confusing because…
YOUR BOOK IS UNLIKELY TO BUY YOU A YACHT
In the life of any aspiring author, a book exists almost entirely in the author’s imagination. She’s been wasting time filling a folder full of images for cover ideas. Or…
ARE WE BEING GOOD ANCESTORS?
Margaret Fuller’s Birthday and a Chimpanzee An early morning on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in South Africa still smells of woodsmoke and Impepho trodden underfoot in the…
GEN JONES SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES
The MAY Newsletter: Somewhere between the collapse of attention spans, the rise of artificial intelligence, the return of world wars to the nightly news, and trying to remember why we…
MY BOT IS THE LOVECHILD OF HECTOR AND GYLES.
A Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device, FRED, has given me back my Fingerspitzengefühl, in this Room Of My Own. That is to say: it (not HE!) exists politely in my life…
STYROFOAM BALLS IN STATIC ROOMS
An Introduction to What Forensic IT Can Establish About Social Media Stalkers It’s wonderful to be on the blogs again. Those friends who have blogged with me since the birth…
Avoiding Moths Whilst Exiting The Woods
from my Substack archive: Cindy Phillips, Looking ahead, ten years after, 24 July 2025 One way I’ve come to understand my own condition is to write something and spend a…