Notes on the craft of writing and the business of publishing.
by Selena Champlin
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Attention has quietly become the only genuinely scarce resource in a life saturated with information. Everything is available; almost nothing is absorbed. The writers and readers…
Jul 1, 2026
On the Discipline of Reading Slowly
Jun 30, 2026
Write the thing you would want to read and cannot find. The advice sounds sentimental until you notice how much writing is produced to fill a slot rather than to answer a genuine…
Jun 28, 2026
The blank page stops being frightening the moment you stop expecting the first attempt to be the final one. Fear thrives on the fantasy of getting it right in one pass; it dissolv…
Jun 24, 2026
Voice and style are not the same thing, though the two are endlessly confused. Style is the surface — the diction, the sentence shapes, the mannerisms — and it can be imitated. Vo…
May 18, 2026
