HeyJaredOff The Record
Monthly visual writing prompts to get us all practicing the craft of writing off the record. Come for the prompt and stay for my essay it generated. Don't forget to tag and share your own!
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- 7
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- Sep 30, 2026
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September Was Full Of... (opens the original)
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Let’s kick off this list of things with everything I read in September. The Summer of Second Chances: I did not finish.The Shampoo Effect: 3/5 - I really do love novels about writers. This one I found fascinating as someone who writes real and struggles with fiction - that thread being pulled was really interesting for me.Friends & Strangers: 3/5 - I really liked this. I love messy characters and this one had the messiest of characters. I love the ambiguity of it
A (not quite yet, but almost in that back-to-school just-before-the-holidays kind of way) New Year, A New Thought, A New (point of) View (opens the original)
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A year and a half ago I experimented with my format, here. Spoiler: it did not go well.I had fun, of course, but it didn’t land in so many ways.That’s ok! My space here has always been a living, breathing thing. A nebulous something that globs around like it’s in the lava lamp I never had. I don’t want things here to feel like work - for either of us. So I started to brainstorm ways to switch things around yet again. I knew I didn’t want to go back to strictly scheduled essays, but knew I needed
Friends and Influence (opens the original)
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September Photo Prompt (opens the original)
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Last stretch of 2026 begins! For this ninth prompt of the year we’re headed to London.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1035" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dTBD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubs
Attack! Of The Movies Of My Youth (opens the original)
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