HeyJaredCreative Fix
Creative recovery for overwhelmed humans. ❤️🩹 A monthly magazine, and gentle momentum-building community, for writers, artists and makers who want to stop letting life push their creative dreams to the bottom of the list.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 12
- Latest publication
- Sep 21, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 17, 2026
Latest issues
What you can do on the days you can’t make your art (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Not everyone can write or make art every day. Subscribe nowThere’s so much bullshit out there about the importance of a daily practice, and it’s all written by people who do not have health issues or fluctuating energy. Who do not have children to look after or a house to clean (or have hired / married help for that sort of mundane stuff). Who do not have a day job or other responsibilities taking up their time and energy. Who have never, not once in their lives, known what it means to be so phy
They stole the sea and they stole the stars (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Subscribe nowThe sea is full of shit. A beach close to my home has just put up a sign advising people not to swim there at present, because of sewage that has been dumped into the sea. Luckily, this is not the beach where I swim regularly, but it’s close enough to make me nervous about getting in the water right now. What amazes me is how easily everyone seems to have accepted the fact that there is sewage in our water. Put there by the companies that we pay to provide us with c
You are not a bad person for being sick (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Disabled people are under attack, again, in the UK. We’ve had two ridiculous “think” pieces lately in right-wing papers (not that I believe much thinking went into them), both, essentially, claiming that disabled people are just pretending to be disabled to look cool. It’s a stretch. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LfjO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F535af1b
The publishing industry doesn’t really care about AI (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Agents, publishers and writing competitions are all stipulating that they won’t take AI-generated writing. But if you think that’s a quality issue, or a respect for human writers issue, you’re kidding yourself. The only reason they don’t want AI-generated writing is… you can’t copyright it. Subscribe nowIt might seem like the distinction doesn’t really matter, and maybe, ultimately, it doesn’t. But I think we’re getting lulled into a false sense t
Create with me in September (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Hey Creative Fixers! In my little corner of the English coast, it has suddenly become autumn. I didn’t notice it sneaking up—what with the intense heat wave we’ve been having, it felt like summer would never end, or that it would burn us all up before it burned itself out. But, all at once, autumn has arrived. The leaves are turning copper and gold, and taking to the wind. The grass that had been scorched to a pale yellow is becoming green again. There are such things as puddles and mud and jump
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.