RaphaelWrites

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.

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!

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

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

Our online edition, delivered every two weeks

Speculative Fiction set in 2050 - New chapter weekly, plus maps, behind the scenes and audio files

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

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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

A newsletter celebrating animal antics

Fascinated with life stories, both in my work as a therapist and in exploring life experiences in some writing.

Weekly essays on the writing life by author Richard Donnelly.

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.

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.

My personal Substack

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

Poetry, fiction, and other strange marvels of the mind

Latest News in Lit Mag Publishing

Light reading in these dark political times ...

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).

Political and policy analysis from the vital center.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Menopause visited

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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