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how to write all the time, every day, without stopping, until your work is finished and perfect
I’m supposed to be writing.
Dec 5
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A M Belsey
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November 2025
let's not pretend
I’m just as guilty of it as anyone.
Nov 7
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A M Belsey
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October 2025
dread
I wasn’t ignoring you last week; I was in Hong Kong. HK is a lot like if New York and London used a Chinese surrogate to have a baby. I loved it.
Oct 29
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A M Belsey
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rolling around in your own stench
a cut, and why it was cut
Oct 15
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A M Belsey
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The plan and the prayer
Why this novella? And why now?
Oct 10
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A M Belsey
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September 2025
a newsletter's existential crisis
You write *one* little book…
Sep 25
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A M Belsey
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December 2024
Fai da te!
or, do it yourself
Dec 2, 2024
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A M Belsey
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November 2024
Is Substack the new LiveJournal?
If so, I probably wouldn't have used my actual name
Nov 27, 2024
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A M Belsey
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October 2023
Tue, 3 Oct
The only cure for grief is action, so they say.
Oct 3, 2023
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A M Belsey
April 2023
Tue, 18 Apr
I’m enjoying Notes here on Substack, (aka the new Twitter), even though it just looks like to me right now like a bunch of high-follower accounts…
Apr 19, 2023
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A M Belsey
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February 2023
Mon, 6 Feb
I’m on a bus, right this very moment, and it has a strange, dirty, singed smell--a bad smell, yes, but it’s exactly the same smell my school bus had…
Feb 6, 2023
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A M Belsey
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January 2023
Fri, 27 Jan
I just read this article from The Guardian that says “most bosses secretly want all staff back in offices” and, I have to say, that is absolutely…
Jan 27, 2023
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A M Belsey
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