Hi Mike, I missed the final start up email and have just sent a request to enter. Please let me in when you see it. Thanks. I saw the first two delayed emails, but wouldn't you know I'd miss the start up. Looking forward to the course.
Hi Leslie! I saw your request and clicked the relevant button to give you access - but there's a technical issue that's affecting a very small number of folk trying to join it right now, and unfortunately it's happening with you! (Absolutely nothing you've done and it absolutely should be working, so I've asked Substack support to try to fix it.) As soon as it's resolved, I promise you'll have full access to the course.
The word ‘gently’ set the emotional tone so well for me that the subsequent sentences rested upon it. Everything that followed came gently, slowly, inexorably — the changing colors, textures, the parching. Thank you so much for pointing out this magical phenomenon!
Sorry if you've been told this numerous times, but I was "introduced" to you/your Substack through a reference from Mary L. Trump's memoir "Who Could Ever Love You", about an article you did on paradoelia (the drunk octopus wants to fight you, door hook). 😁🙂
Also, if you're into music 🎶, I recently discovered a band called the Fruit Bats. To my shame, they've been around for years and I was totally unaware. Anyway, a great song "Cazadera" has the refrain "sometimes a cloud is just a cloud". 😎☁️
Hi Margaret! In fact I had not been told about Mary mentioning my Substack - I had her memoir on my Kindle but hadn’t started reading it yet! So I have you to thank for this tip-off. And my mind is officially blown.
Mike, you have a GIFT yourself. You're like the Pied Piper. Or someone who took a Master Class taught by him. Direct from Hamlin. Some people got it, some people don't. I kind of occupy a gray middle ground.
Made me think of this quote from Steinbeck's Cannery Row. The writing is so exquisite it stopped me in my tracks, and I saved it and go back to it every now and then.
“When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.”
Wow!
Took the words right out of my keyboard!
Hi Mike, I missed the final start up email and have just sent a request to enter. Please let me in when you see it. Thanks. I saw the first two delayed emails, but wouldn't you know I'd miss the start up. Looking forward to the course.
Leslie Rasmussen
Hi Leslie! I saw your request and clicked the relevant button to give you access - but there's a technical issue that's affecting a very small number of folk trying to join it right now, and unfortunately it's happening with you! (Absolutely nothing you've done and it absolutely should be working, so I've asked Substack support to try to fix it.) As soon as it's resolved, I promise you'll have full access to the course.
The word ‘gently’ set the emotional tone so well for me that the subsequent sentences rested upon it. Everything that followed came gently, slowly, inexorably — the changing colors, textures, the parching. Thank you so much for pointing out this magical phenomenon!
Hey Mike...
Sorry if you've been told this numerous times, but I was "introduced" to you/your Substack through a reference from Mary L. Trump's memoir "Who Could Ever Love You", about an article you did on paradoelia (the drunk octopus wants to fight you, door hook). 😁🙂
Also, if you're into music 🎶, I recently discovered a band called the Fruit Bats. To my shame, they've been around for years and I was totally unaware. Anyway, a great song "Cazadera" has the refrain "sometimes a cloud is just a cloud". 😎☁️
Hi Margaret! In fact I had not been told about Mary mentioning my Substack - I had her memoir on my Kindle but hadn’t started reading it yet! So I have you to thank for this tip-off. And my mind is officially blown.
🙏🏼🙂
Most welcome. Mary's memoir is deeply poignant and visceral... you will cry and that's ok. 🙂
Thank you -- and, I felt
Such a memorable post that I will keep close. Thank you.
Mike, you have a GIFT yourself. You're like the Pied Piper. Or someone who took a Master Class taught by him. Direct from Hamlin. Some people got it, some people don't. I kind of occupy a gray middle ground.
Great piece, Mike!
Made me think of this quote from Steinbeck's Cannery Row. The writing is so exquisite it stopped me in my tracks, and I saved it and go back to it every now and then.
“When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.”
Love this description of ‘felt writing’ … you were bang in a zone when these words flowed!!
And it anchors us in a Place. Wonderful.
Such a good read. Thank you!
Incredible work! I would love to learn to write like this sometime.
Love it when you find a good book that takes you into the next day, like your experience of The Martian.