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Writing, style, books, and culture reflections from Ela Lee, author of Jaded and Minbak
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I hate it here (opens the original)
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I am supposed to be on hiatus from Substack. Paid subscribers might have noticed that I have paused billing while I crack on with drafting book 3. But in the last few hours, another article about an author having their book pulled due to ‘allegations of AI use’ landed in my inbox, and all motivation to write today evaporated. Subscribe nowThis morning, the Bookseller ran a story headlined: <a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/genius-novel-sold-in-major-six-and-seven-figure-deals-at-auctio
Fixing my depression, breaking my writing (opens the original)
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CW: depression, self-harm I turned thirty-one last week. I have a fabled tradition of crying on my birthday. Something about excitement colliding with apathy has always made me unbearably sad. When I was a child, I’d cry the morning of my birthday because the stress of going to school, of seeing if my friends had baked cupcakes or written cards, was just too much. Look, I’m a July baby, so maybe the sad-girl Cancerian energy is to blame. This year though, I didn’t cry. Not because I’ve stopped b
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