HeyJaredThe Peak District
One northern gal's attempts to break into the media industry - featuring frank insights about the highs and lows of starting out in the world of journalism, events & networking opportunities
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The art of the reach out (opens the original)
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This week, ‘cuffing season’ was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. For the uninitiated, cuffing season is the time of year when single people supposedly start seeking someone to couple up with as the weather gets colder – a phenomenon my own WhatsApp archive has observed in full force this week 😅 But, before I judged the folk in my DMs, I had to check myself – because I’ve been reaching out to blasts from the past a lot lately, too. My motivations have, however, been co
A little bit of everything (opens the original)
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The benefits of being freelance and doing a bit of this, a bit of that mean life is rarely boring. But it does also mean you need to be very organised. In earlier iterations of this newsletter I wrote about the Eisenhower matrix – which I previously used to determine which to-do list items to prioritise. If you’re a fan of a pen-and-paper list, then this is definitely still a good organisational system. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5L
The art of inventing (opens the original)
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This week I shared on Instagram (@marathonmanuscript) that I had started working on a second novel – currently titled How To Boil A Frog – while I wait for reader feedback on draft two of Work In Progress. My friend messaged me: <div class="image2-inset"
Let’s start again, shall we? (opens the original)
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Firstly, thank you to everyone who took the time to read, comment or email me after I rudely forced my way back into your inbox earlier this week. It’s been really lovely reconnecting with people I haven’t spoken to in years, as well as getting to know some new faces. I also really enjoyed putting pen to ‘page’ and writing again – and was pleasantly surprised by how readily the ideas came. A little insight into how The Peak District gets made: I tend to randomly scroll through my liked songs on
Remember me? (opens the original)
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The Peak District was a newsletter I started from my bedroom at my parents’ house in autumn 2020, having moved back there after a lockdown breakup. I was 23/24 at the time. I’m 29 now, nearly 30. And I’m writing this from my bedroom at my parents’ house again… Life’s going great, thanks for asking. Back in 2020, the title was intended as a pun on the ‘highs and lows’ of making a living as a freelancer, rooted in the fact that I’d moved from Oxford back to Sheffield, on the doorstep of the actual
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