I hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend! 🌷 If you’re in need of something light but thoughtful to read to wind down the night — I welcome you to check out the new article I put out this morning! 🤍
My latest piece explores the importance of the mundane within the practice of writing. This one’s for all the chronic observers who find meaning in everything. 📄🖋️
First ever substack post is officially live!
Reads and shares mean the world to me — I plan on keeping all my work publicly available, I just want to get it out there! 🤍
open.substack.com/pub/olivelov...
one of my favorite writers sharing one of my favorite quotes:
I definitely venture out of my genre quite often, I think there’s a lot to learn and take from reading a well rounded variety. Not to mention it’s more fun that way ☺️
yeah sure
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
As a chronically ill person I feel this so much! Normal test results aren’t always great news 🥲
This was such an amazing read that I wanted to share it here. This author managed to express the feelings that have been culminating in me for years, in better words than I could formulate on my own.
brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-g...
Rest and recharge! I hope things get better for you soon!
This fall weather is doing wonders in bringing my writing spark back - expect some new work very soon! 🍁🍂
Saw this the other day -
“If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”.
And that just made some things click.
Out: Write drunk edit sober
In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before
Sometimes it helps me to act out the scene myself (even if it's not out loud), giving each character a voice and flow really helps me out!
Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.
I’ve only read a little but it’s great so far, can’t wait to finish it! :) I used to vacation in Tawas every summer and have visited that exact spot many times myself, super neat to see it set there.
Congrats!
Looking for an escape from our current train wreck of reality?
Here’s some hopeful, endearing sci-fi adventures with heart.
Seeds from Ancient Earth
jerryjdavis.com/books/seeds-...
If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA! www.wonkette.com/p/if-you-lik...
Too many Americans "did their own research"
Front page of the nyt
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Don’t be a sheep. Be a chupacabra in a field of goats.
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
