Mason Currey

1 week ago | masoncurrey.substack.com | Mason Currey

Great advice! I totally agree that understanding your own creative cycles can be so beneficial and help release some of the shame and doubt when things aren't flowing as easily. It's something that I've been thinking about a lot, especially in regards to creating vs engaging--I've noticed that sometimes I go through periods where I'm very creatively stimulated and writing a lot, but find it more difficult to engage with other people's art and keep up with reading-and vice versa.

Jan 24, 2025 | sarajbenincasa.substack.com | Sara Benincasa |Mason Currey

The world seems absolutely batshit sometimes, so why not send out a newsletter with a photograph of oneself and a bright pink bird in the header? Given the reference to bat guano, I am aware that a photograph of me with a cute bat would be more appropriate, but I do not have any sentient bat buddies, YET. (Bats are our friends, please be kind to them.)I’ve spent the past week talking a lot more than usual to people I talk to nearly every day anyway, which is to say, friends in Los Angeles.

Dec 5, 2024 | englishteacherweekly.substack.com | Andrew Campbell |Nicholas Carr |Mason Currey |Ted Gioia

Welcome to English Teacher Weekly—your source for what’s worthwhile from the worlds of literature, education, Christian thought, and the humanities.

Nov 4, 2024 | masoncurrey.substack.com | Mason Currey |Anna Brones

One thing all writers probably struggle with from time to time—not just writers but all creative workers, of whatever discipline—is explaining Why the Thing Is Taking So Long. You know what I mean. The project that you thought would be done by now, that you thought would be done well before now—people, eventually, are going to ask about it. And they mean well, mostly. But the question can feel a tiny bit loaded.

Sep 9, 2024 | masoncurrey.substack.com | Mason Currey |Anna Brones |Kristin Posehn

Dear readers! Last time I wrote to you all, in July, I was wrapping up an eight-week, worm-themed summer course that I had concocted as an elaborate piece of self-help: I would break down, step by step, the habits that I needed to adopt in order to finally finish my next book. So did it help? I’ll tell you at the end of this email.