Embers & Ink: Learnings from Literature
Sharing stories, poems, and learnings from a life in literature and indie publishing. Roundup and reminder email sent to all subscribers monthly, at new moon time. Find your fire, make your mark.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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The Infinite, Sorted (opens the original)
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Hello, dear creative voyager, on this first Sunday after the equinox. Here in St Leonards said equinox thinks it’s high summer. It’s so strangely sunny that the tipping of the year towards the darkness doesn’t have its usual melancholy feel.Last week, I asked you which texts you’d put on the Foundations of Creative Theory and Practice Syllabus I’m compiling—a literature review and reading route for anyone who wants to live and work more creatively. Thank you for the comments, the messages, the e
Finding the Deep Current that Powers Your Creative Life (opens the original)
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Friday Fiction. A Life Before 2:10. What the Dark Moon Sees, It Keeps. (opens the original)
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Foundations of Creative Theory & Practice: Call for Submissions (opens the original)
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Friday Fiction. A Life Before 2:9. A Good Coverlet Over a Lumpy Bed (opens the original)
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