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Why to Keep a Journal

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By John Paul Brammer Verified
| John Paul Brammer
Buy me chowder. Hello from Dublin. The longer I keep a journal, the less I want to write about myself, and the more I want to write about strangers. Not because I think I’m uninteresting, but because it’s interesting for a person to find other people interesting, and the worst thing you can be in your own journal is boring. It was keeping a journal that revealed this unintuitive fact; that it’s the things that seem totally unremarkable at the moment that are the gems.
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Why I Set Fire to a School Bus

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By John Paul Brammer Verified
| John Paul Brammer
Your paid support makes my writing possible. Thank you. It speaks to a deep spiritual inadequacy in me that I’m not a sports fan. What the average beer-bellied football enthusiast is capable of doing from his recliner on a Sunday afternoon is nothing short of astral projection in my book. When I look at what’s keeping me from enjoying sports, it looks an awful lot like what’s keeping me from escaping samsara. I’m a smarmy materialist.
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An author’s $2 million book deal was pulled over suspected AI use. Where does publishing go from here?

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By John Paul Brammer Verified, Lincoln Michel Verified
| Substack
Last week, news broke that Jerry Falade’s debut crime novel, which had reportedly sold for $2 million after a 14-way bidding auction, had been pulled from publication by the author’s own agents over suspected AI use. In an email to publishers, one of his representatives wrote: “Jerry Falade produced an incredible manuscript that dazzled us and the top publishing professionals around the world.
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