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3rd May

3rd May

The Obsessive Diary

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Housekeeping:

Ben Wakeman
and I will be in conversation today, 10am EDT / 3pm BST. In Substack terms, we’re old friends, we connected soon after I landed here. He ran the amazing community writing project Same Shoes Different Walk. Remember that? It was a technical feat and an inspiration. Here’s the first story I contributed, plucked from the archive…

Because I Loved You

Eleanor Anstruther
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December 29, 2023
Because I Loved You

“Same Walk, Different Shoes” is a community writing project that Ben Wakeman organized as a practical exercise in empathy. The premise is simple. A group of writers anonymously contribute a personal story of an experience that changed their life. Each participating writer is randomly assigned one of these story prompts to turn into a short story. The st…

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And in the years since he’s serialised three novels to great acclaim, and been the benchmark for raising the game on production values. You can check out his work here:

Catch & Release
A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.
By Ben Wakeman

Our conversation is without agenda and free ranging, that’s the thrill ride of an hour LIVE, but I’ve no doubt we won’t draw breath. Join us.

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