RaphaelWrites

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.

Weekly essays on the writing life by author Richard Donnelly.

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.

Writing for Discovery - Reading for Insight

My personal Substack

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!

Poetry, fiction, and other strange marvels of the mind

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

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

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

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers delivered to your inbox weekly.

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

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.

(Moved to be a sub-newsletter in Sub Club)

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

Our online edition, delivered every two weeks

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).

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

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.

A newsletter celebrating animal antics

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

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

Light reading in these dark political times ...

Exercising the First Amendment while we still have it.

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.

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

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

Menopause visited

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

Latest News in Lit Mag Publishing

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.

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

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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

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