My (no-longer-)secret magical practice

NB: This post is quite long, and may be truncated in your email client. I’d recommend reading it on the substack site. Actually I’d recommend that with all my posts, but this one it particularly matters. I actually had a lot of difficulty finishing the last post about the Manual, because there’s been a secret subtext to a lot of my writing for a while that it was incredibly hard to finish that post without mentioning. I promised myself I’d just come clean about the secret in a subsequent post, and that was part of what allowed me to finish it (helped by the fact that I do genuinely think that the post about the Manual is better without bringing the secret in). This is that post. Another part of it is that I used the secret itself, the part of it that I am implicitly describing when I talk about the Manual, to help me finish it off. This allowed me to invent a new procedure to help me manage a particular type of writer’s block, and it worked really well. I’ll talk about them in a bit. B

NB: This post is quite long, and may be truncated in your email client. I’d recommend reading it on the substack site. Actually I’d recommend that with all my posts, but this one it particularly matters. I actually had a lot of difficulty finishing the last post about the Manual, because there’s been a secret subtext to a lot of my writing for a while that it was incredibly hard to finish that post without mentioning. I promised myself I’d just come clean about the secret in a subsequent post, and that was part of what allowed me to finish it (helped by the fact that I do genuinely think that