HeyJaredBrewed by Donna Fisher
Grab a cuppa and read some stories, specially brewed for people who have outgrown the ordinary.
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Write What You Know (opens the original)
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Hello dear readers, As some of you may already know, I’ve entered the edit zone on two manuscripts and so I’ll be a little quieter than usual here on Substack. But I wanted to give you something to read while I’m busy. I wrote this story in 2022 while sitting in a terrible writing class where they churned out the old classics like ‘write what you know’. I decided to take their useless advice and do something fun with it! The draft story has sat on my computer ever since, and so as a bit of a war
The Odd Ducks of Subquack (opens the original)
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A couple of weeks ago I shared a post about being an odd duck author….It is my most read article…apart from the one about Pangram’s expensive and flawed reports that I wrote and took down in March this year because I didn’t want to even passively promote Pangram and some people got mean to me and to others in the comments.The reaction to the Odd Duck article could not have been more different to the Pangram one - it was overwhelmingly—as in 100%—positive (yes, I used these em dashes on purpose).
Daughter of the Forgotten Goddess - Ebook available to download (opens the original)
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Well, I’ve pulled it off! (I think). The ebook of Daughter of the Forgotten Goddess is now available so you can download it and read the whole story as slowly or as quickly as you like!Just head to the perks page, and click unlock. It is available for annual paid and founding subscribers. If you are on a monthly plan, and want to download the book, please reach out. The paywalled serialised chapters, published so far, will be taken down in the next four weeks to give monthly subscribers a chance
I can easily describe myself as an author: I’m an odd duck (opens the original)
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Margaret Atwood, high priestess of the odd ducks, wrote this excellent article about her favourite odd duck books this week, and it really resonated with me, because I myself am an odd duck; someone that doesn’t belong on any particular shelf.I always have been. When I was little, I wore goggles and a too-big bathing suit around the house, just because. On rare sunny days in the North-East (40 years ago, before the time of waves of UK heatwaves) I was to be found indoors, making shoes out of box
Chapter 8: Daughter of the Forgotten Goddess (opens the original)
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Hello lovely readers, here is the next instalment of Daughter of the Forgotten Goddess. Free subscribers only get to see a small part of it, and for that I apologise, I know it can be very annoying and feel like you are being coerced into taking out a paid sub, so let me explain why Daughter of the Forgotten Goddess is paywalled, before we get to this week’s chapter.First, it is a complete novel. One I took back from a trad publisher so I had more control over when and how it made its way into t
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