How About These Links #25 20221125

Can you believe it? 25 weekly round ups!

Nov 25, 2022

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OVER THERE (found elsewhere)

Campfire Notebook

#33.5: Six Months Around the Campfire

Yesterday marked six months since I migrated a former version of this blog from Revue, the Twitter-affiliated newsletter platform. (How prescient was that move?) The one thing I will miss about Twitter is the opportunities that popped up, such as this newsletter! I learned about Substack via Mark's tweet about usin…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 16 comments · Bryn Robinson

Bryn reflects on six months of publishing her Campfire Notebook newsletter on Substack. Let’s help her hit her subscriber goal!

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Campfire Notebook

#34: The Gifts of Sound and Vision

For those in the H.A.T.T.E.R-verse, you are likely familiar with discussions around the content we choose to carefully welcome into our lives, i.e., our collections. I’ve percolated on this post and a related concept for a while, now; specifically, the idea of personal curation as a necessary part of a creative life…

2 years ago · 3 likes · 3 comments · Bryn Robinson

DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER

Underrated reasons to be thankful

dynomight.net/thanks-2 That when cyanobacteria arose 2 billion years ago and filled the atmosphere with oxygen which killed off most species and removed methane from the air so temperatures crashed and the entire planet was encased in ice, this didn’t quite extinguish…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 3 comments · dynomight

Science fans, have a look at this listing of specific principles and facts which are things to be grateful for, indeed.

Collected Rejections

On Rejection: Mike Sowden

When I first started getting more involved with Substack by participating in weekly threads and showing up for writers’ events, Mike Sowden was one of the first people that reached out and made me feel welcome. He writes the incredible Everything Is Amazing…

2 years ago · 27 likes · 8 comments · Valorie Clark

Mike Sowden writes Everything is Amazing, a wonderful newsletter about curiosity and where it can lead you. In this interview with Valorie Clark he describes early rejections and setbacks and how they’ve informed his progress as a writer. Mike’s a subscriber to How About This and I certainly appreciate his support - working on my own interview with him to share with you soon!

Soaring Twenties Social Club links:

Omnibus #43 - the usual weekly round up, a great diversity of writers and creators working here.

BACK HERE (the past week’s posts)

Monday featured my interview with Nova Scotia author Brittni Brynn

Tuesday featured my interview with STSC member and writer Vanya Bagaev

Wednesday featured a two mini-essay post about both coffee and fountain pens (“I’ll take Things That People Obsess Over, Alex!”)

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RELEASE

Time to release the H.A.T. Scouts for another week! And remember, it’s always better to be a H.A.T.T.E.R. than a hater.

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