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NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY is a weekly newsletter about writing, crafting and deleting words, from cult writer WILL CARVER.
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AI - Turn it off (opens the original)
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In 2010, I travelled to the offices of my publisher, Random House - now Penguin Random House - for a meeting with Facebook. There were around 40-50 authors there. I was a debut author, at that time, and my first book was yet to be released. In the room were mid-list writers I didn’t yet know and ‘big’ authors who I thought would be intimidating but turned out to be fairly normal. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wik1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,f
A Moveable Feast (opens the original)
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In this latest episode, Will writes a love letter to Ernest Hemingway while questioning the people who post motivational quotes on their social media profiles.With a little help from Sandra Bullock and Charles Manson, Will ponders the effectiveness of staying silent, and creating art for the sake of it.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Orange For A Head (opens the original)
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It's been a while but Will is back with his most absurd episode yet.Why would somebody choose to have an orange for a head?What happens when you squeeze an orange really hard?Would you peel an orange for your partner just to make their life a little easier?There's a lot of talk about oranges, but this is Nothing Important Happened Today, so it's obviously not about oranges at all...Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Writer's Life: Day 3,520 (opens the original)
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Well, here we are in August.It’ll be Christmas soon…July flew by for me in a blur of words, wine and books. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="512.622754491018" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EIaq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_aut
Did I mention that I won an award? (opens the original)
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‘Award-losing Writer. Drinker. Non-preachy vegan.’This has been the bio on my many social media accounts for years. I used to co-host a podcast with SJ Watson called ‘Let’s Get Lit’ (thanks for listening) and he would tease me about being nominated for awards and losing and I would return the favour by reminding him that his second book was awful - even though I haven’t read it. I attended the Fingerprint Awards at the Capital Crime festival in June where I was shortlisted (again) for the Genre-
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