RaphaelWrites

Limp stabs at humour on drugs, filth, travel, science, anything & everything. Thoughts and stories from a life lived shame-free.

Weekly essays on the writing life by author Richard Donnelly.

A periodic sharing about the Story Carrier Movement. We are all carrying stories whether we know them, or not. I share ways to bring stories into being, through language, where we can celebrate and enjoy them.

Speculative Fiction set in 2050 - New chapter weekly, plus maps, behind the scenes and audio files

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

We're a writing community, a safe space. We're here to give, to learn, to revel, to commiserate, but mainly we're here to advance and enhance our writing. All posts are free and the comments are always open.

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

Personal essays, stuff on the writing life, movies & books, Judaism, and lots of references to Chico Marx. Drafted on typewriter, edited in MS Word on a Mac, presented to you on SubStack. Serious stuff with a humorous foundation

Essays from the cultural hinterlands. I'm in the boonies but I have Internet and a working BS meter. My country is on the skids right now and I'm trying to get it back on track. Other things are on my mind, but not often.

Light reading in these dark political times ...

Our online edition, delivered every two weeks

Glenn Ingersoll is a poet, mainly. Or partly. One is never just one thing.

Writing for Discovery - Reading for Insight

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Exercising the First Amendment while we still have it.

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.

Resources, stories, and news for the writers, podcasters, musicians, video creators, and culture makers publishing on Substack.

A brainy newsletter on resistance, in every sense of the word. Stuff you deserve to know about your own body from a functional movement perspective.

I give you all the things. Wide-eyed optimism. Farm life. Lefty politics. Real-life misadventures. Fantasy maps. Alien worlds. Chickens. Science fiction and fantasy fiction. Chickens IN fiction. Even short stories without ANY chickens in them at all.

Poetry and occasional fiction

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

Excavating words. ~ A curated magazine of previously published creative nonfiction.

queer artist & writer looking at + writing about culture, nature, bodies, the landscape

I write romantic suspense and mysteries, but I call them all "Mysteries With Relationships." Thanks for joining me here, where I'll be including some of my "just for fun" writing endeavors and some of my travel adventures.

Funny writing from The American Bystander, "the world's best print humor magazine."

I write to pass on insights gleaned from decades of living on how I learned to hold joy and sadness, confusion and clarity, loss and gain, in the same space.

Fascinated with life stories, both in my work as a therapist and in exploring life experiences in some writing.

Verbal snapshots of my daily life or whatever else may be on my mind. Mostly syllabic, occasionally ekphrastic (which is not the same as illustrative).

Take a tour of my eclectic interests, thoughts, stories, poems, and photography. If you like what you see, please follow or subscribe. It's FREE!

My personal Substack

Most of what I post here is typed on one of my many old manual typewriters.

A newsletter celebrating animal antics

Menopause visited

Latest News in Lit Mag Publishing

Movie reviews, television opinions, hot takes, and more.

Tips + treats for freelance writers, delivered pipin' hot once a month

Chill Subs startup diary. (No longer active)

I share my story through writing to help my readers gain resiliency to overcome any challenge and find meaning in adversity.

A bit of humor and serious matter interwoven on topics of interest to me, and hopefully to you. Though I am currently working on a 3-part novella horror/sci-fi series, I am having fun on the Stack with short stories, essays and memoir-ish pieces.

Aaron Allbright chronicles his years living and working across five continents, and his ongoing struggles with leukemia.

Proto-thoughts, fleeting obsessions, and insomnia cures from an occasionally unreliable narrator.

Solo aging in my home alone; looking forward to the next steps.