To Write with Wild Abandon

✍️ The Power of Creative Minimalism

or, Enjoying the Silence - How I took advantage of my annual writing retreat to unplug, unwind, and destress, and explore creative minimalism.

Feb 17 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Retreating

or, When Do You Admit that Enough is Enough? Reflections on juggling life and writing.

Feb 10 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Two Ways to Sharpen Your Dialogue

or, Ideas on How to "Show, Don’t Tell" While Telling

Feb 3 • Graham Strong

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January 2026

✍️ Our Job as Writers

Or, the Joy of Things That Aren’t There - Have you ever may a list of things that aren't there? It's harder than it looks. I realized though, that's our…

Jan 27 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Why Starting the New Year with a New Keyboard is Making All the Difference for Me

or, How Full Circle is a Step Forward - What's a writer to do? When Microsoft discontinued its Sculpt Keyboard, it was the start of my long journey…

Jan 20 • Graham Strong

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✍️ In Defence of the Adverb

or, Why Merrily We Write Along - Stephen King says adverbs aren't your friends. He's not the only one. Here's why I think adverbs are much maligned.

Jan 13 • Graham Strong

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✍️ A Few Words about Em-dashes – and Why AI Can Suck It

or, How in this Case, I Actually *Am* Raging against the Machine… - AI has changed the way many people use em-dashes. I'm sticking to my style.

Jan 6 • Graham Strong

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December 2025

✍️ Happy 2026! And, a Happy Announcement…

2025 Year-end + 2026 Year-beginning Review - Although 2025 was not the stellar year I'd hoped in general, this newsletter really took off thanks to you!

Dec 31, 2025 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Rise above the Slush Pile

or, Lick Your Wounds by Licking Ice Cream - A recent doc on The New Yorker underlines how hard it is for the average writer to get their story published…

Dec 23, 2025 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Mindset is Everything

or, How to Put "Failures" Behind You Like a Goalie - Mindset is very important. In November for me, it was the difference between 4,000 words and…

Dec 9, 2025 • Graham Strong

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November 2025

✍️ Extreme Zero Drafting – Thoughts So Far

or, How to Walk a Dog with a Long Leash - For #GraNoWriMo, I've developed Extreme Zero Drafting as a way to boost creativity and get words down.

Nov 25, 2025 • Graham Strong

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✍️ No Excuses! How to Not-Write without Shame

or, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason - All writers feel guilt or shame when they don't write. But we should let that go. Here's why.

Nov 11, 2025 • Graham Strong

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