Morel Bay, Chapter IV - A Queer Cat A new chapter on my birthday week about Adopting A Cat while in Grief! Follow along for more Morel Bay and odd, quiet fiction (well, till the whales start washing up). open.substack.com/pub/timnorto... substack.com/@timnorton/n...

In a music mood today and this seems like a fun excuse to avoid editing! Top 10 Bands/Artists no order - Jeff Rosenstock - Bear vs Shark - David Bazan - Laura Stevenson - Circle Takes the Square - MF DOOM - Tyler, the Creator - Young Statues - Kurt Travis - At the Drive-In - Chris Farren

a new jeff rosenstock album would fix me

Met with a cinematographer friend randomly today and he got me inspired… guess I’m writing a horror script?

Cronica II is out now! This week I look at where authors find their own personal crossroads of greatness focusing on Flannery O’Connor with a bit from Wise Blood, and Leena Krohn with a bit from Tainaron. timnorton.substack.com/p/crossroads...

Cronica II is all drafted out! Imagining An Impossibility; Krohn, Moshfegh, and O’Connor dropping tomorrow!

Started doing a weekly Cronica! Read along with me below 😁 open.substack.com/pub/timnorto...

I’m teaching a new ONLINE class! We’re exploring Creative Nonfiction at @musewriterscenter.bsky.social 🗓 Begins June 25 | 🕒 7-9:30 pm |⏳ 6 Sessions| 🧭 Hybrid 🔗 Register here: the-muse.org/event/muse-w... 🎟 Use code HEAT25 (35% off) at checkout.

No one gets me like Lispector does:

Not me getting choked up at the idea of Bellamy living a regular life 🥲

Bear 600 chapters in and I can clearly claim that Oda has successfully adapted the Eastern Epic format to Manga.

Bon Clay was one of my favorite parts of the Alabasta Arcs, so happy to see him return in Impel Down with such fierce force

*Sweats in Journey to the West*

Oda out here making me shed full tears over a boat this morning:

Oda’s strength in these knock out dialogue panels is the use of what one of my teachers and I called “Narrative Body Blows” - small narrative steps that create base damage, leading to a more powerful KO. It’s also another potential strength to serial writing that Oda Executes masterfully.

Such a lovely thing about spring in costal virginia!

Oda truly is a Master of Serialized Narrative. It’s only due to his complete commitment to the serialized format, and his own belief in the longevity of his narrative, that moments like this become possible.

That feeling when you CRACK a characters core and all their actions fall into place and it’s heartbreaking yet affirming all at the same time -

Oda’s Q&A sections Re by far my favorite part of the One Piece read through so far! Like how wholesome is this exchange?

I truly appreciate those who use scrivener, whiteboards, post its, etc. to plot… but I will always love the layers of ink on journals from ideas piling up! I’ve gone through at least 11 of these journals in the last 4 years.

“He believed that it was possible to see right through time and space. That was how lonely he was.” ~The Sparrow’s Matchmaking ~~Yasunari Kawabata, 1926 ~~~Palm of the Hand Stories

I’m losing the will to keep dragging on / But I can’t die yet, cause who will look after the dogs? Is the hardest couplet of 2025. PUP has really refined their style and it’s paying off in the new album. youtu.be/LyQJtQ0krFA?...

So excited to share my interview with the brilliant poet & flash writer, Katherine DiBella Seluja, about her stunning new collection, POINT OF ENTRY. Check it out! 💙 #poetry #flashfiction open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Journaling breakthrough this morning, “I’m not here to tell my reader what the story means, I’m just here to tell my reader the story.”

‘Why do they forget you so quickly?’ ‘If they remembered me, they would remember their own unhappiness.’ Leena Krohn out here giving masterclasses in condensation.

Doña would appreciate the light here, and I appreciate her always making me feel seen in her stubbornness.

That feeling when your coffee shop gets Black Straws back in 😍😍😍

Don’t know that I’ve ever seen a better 2 Page Spread before. Chainsaw Man’s quality is beyond what I could have ever imagined.

Cheshire Cat has nothing on Doña:

This book - so many iterations and rejections and years of giving up and starting again - and now I’m so happy to see it on this finalist list. (Biggest thank you Stillhouse Press and Bingham judges 💚).

I love coming back to Leena Krohn seasonally. Doña Quixote in particular reads so wonderfully diverse; masterwork of sentence structure/pacing/variance in this short passage from Ch 2. The Darkness of Mirrors:

I love how excited opening credits get me - hopping into Evil Does Not Exist on Criterion tonight!

hey it’s america

Man that First Person Study back in the day was DEEP - Underlining every single instance of I in a FPSS is still an underrated study techinque.

I’m getting to be that age where photos of really old manuscripts get me misty-eyed

Chaucer is just stunting in these lines and I’m here for it: