HeyJaredProcess by Wil Dalton
Reflections and personal essays on writing fiction, parenting, travel, faith, failure, and living a worthwhile life
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Out Now - Silent Nightmares (opens the original)
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Ho ho hi there friend,It’s the publication day / book birthday of the holiday horror anthology, Silent Nightmares, featuring a short story by me! In the fancy hardcover (or less fancy, but just-as-good-for-story-delivery ebook), mine is the story before Chuck Palahniuk’s. If you got Spotify Premium or Amazon Music Unlimited or Audible, I’m chapter 8 of the audiobook.Is this a big deal? Have you seen the other names in the Table of Contents?<a class="im
You Can’t Have Too Many Friends (opens the original)
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Recently, my kids’ school invited education technology leader, Patrick Green (winningscreentime.com), to host several interactive parent sessions focused on raising your kids to be good digital citizens. In the WhatsApp chat for my building, several parents who could not attend the sessions requested someone take notes. So, I took some notes:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LxmQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
Travel Notes: A Few Quick Observations After a Few Quick Weeks in Mumbai (opens the original)
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The first night in our Mumbai apartment, I walked out of the kitchen prepared to yell at my son for blowing a whistle in his room. I found him on the couch, watching television. Was our new place haunted by a soccer referee? No! The whistles were from outside! Because the cars and the taxis and the trucks, they honk - but the auto-rickshaws? They whistle. Incidentally, traveling by auto-rickshaw is my preferred method of getting to my kids’ school. (My kids’ method? School bus). But the roads he
Introducing: The Digest (opens the original)
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<img alt="The Story of a Voice: HAL in '2001' Wasn't Always So Eerily Calm - The New York Times" class="sizing-normal" height="480" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-O4h!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3
Airbnb Horror - A Request for Recs (opens the original)
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I recently returned from a road trip vacation with my family through New England. We drove to Salem, and then to Maine (staying several days on the coast just south of Portland), and then down to the Catskills (where Rip Van Winkle once slept). We’re back now, enjoying north Virginia for another couple of weeks before heading to Mumbai for the next three years. My Salem visit inspired a short story that I hope to share with you next week - it keeps growing in themes with each edit! It’s a mashup
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