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Writing
Drafts, titles, letters, and the long habit of saying things clearly.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 265 Rooms, not feeds Why I finally gave ten years of writing one address — and what I noticed moving in.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 46 Walking as a writing tool Novelist Tomás Reyes walks eleven kilometres every morning and writes for ninety minutes after. We talk about gait and sentences, getting lost on purpose, and the notebook he keeps in his sock.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 259 Ten years, four platforms, one me An inventory of a decade of writing in public, and why I stopped renting.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 42 Reading on paper again Jonah Feld runs a secondhand bookshop in Porto and has watched a generation come back to paper. What changes when a book cannot notify you.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 256 The second draft is a walk I write first drafts at the table and second drafts with my feet.
- TalkInkwell, Porto Own your archive Writers publish everywhere and keep nothing. A practical talk about gathering ten years of scattered work into one home you control — and why being findable is a form of care for your readers.
- ThreadThread On titles A good title makes a promise the piece keeps. A clever title makes a promise and then winks.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 246 Saudade is not nostalgia A word my neighbours use every day, and the English I keep failing to find for it.
- TalkSound Matters, Berlin Writing for the ear What changes when your words will be heard instead of read. On sentence length, breath, repetition, and leaving the pauses in.
- TalkNewsletter Craft, London Letters, not content Eight years of writing a letter every other Sunday, and why I still write to one reader instead of an audience.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 65 Learning to write short My first editor cut my best paragraph. She was right, and it took me two years to admit it.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 1 The first letter Issue one of Low Tide, unedited, from September 2016.
Low Tide
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