✍️🧠 March of the Writers— Day 25 by Richard White Obstacle Course Read on Substack If my writing life were an obstacle course… it wouldn’t be a straight path. It would be chaos. First obstacle? 🔊 The Noise Gauntlet — blaring sirens, overlapping voices, the constant …
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As part of my MFA program, I’ve been digging into the business and craft of espionage and speculative thriller writing—looking at how the genre works, who publishes it, who represents it, and why readers keep returning to stories about intelligence, secrets, and shadows. Image by Angelo Scarcella from Pixabay …
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Written by @RWhiteAuthor There is a season when the world begins to let go gently. Leaves loosen their grip. Light softens. Even grief feels warmer in the amber hush of October. Whiskey and the Autumn Wind lives in that space—the place where loss has arrived …
Read MoreAcross quiet rooms and late-lit desks, stories are already being written.Not at the perfect moment. Not when the path is clear. Simply now—in the middle of hardship, in the slow turning toward hope, in the deep and restless need to speak. Writers who work in …
Read MoreThe wheel of the year turned like a slow tide, and here we stand at its close — rich with stories, hardened by truth, softened by grace. In the quiet places between sirens and silence, 2025 became one of reckoning and resolution. This year I …
Read MoreThese haunting portraits of an EMT grappling with invisible wounds give voice to the untold stories behind the sirens, where pain, duty, and silence collide.
Read MoreJoin me as I graduate from SNHU with a Creative Writing degree—watch the livestream and celebrate this milestone in my writing journey.
Read MoreBy @RWhiteAuthor For today’s NaPoWriMo prompt, I wanted to capture the haunting weight of sound in stillness. Inspired by the way fog distorts noise and reshapes perception, this poem leans into rhyme and the echo of a singular, specific sound: the distant clang of an old …
Read MoreEvery dream begins with a wish, and this year, mine is to finish my BA in English and Creative Writing and secure my spot in an MFA program. I’m working hard to gain financial aid and land an internship at W.W. Norton and Company, a stepping stone into the publishing world. This opportunity will shape my journey as a writer and educator.
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