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Phil Hearn

@hearncommaphil

Making things up and writing them down

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My kindergartener has nailed the three act structure

11.12.2025 16:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Glide Guitar On defining tension, My Bloody Valentine, and writing with the volume up

It’s been a while but I’m back with another discourse from the slush pile. Turn it up all the way.

03.04.2025 23:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My most millennial trait is that I’m currently listening to Hail to the Thief to deal with today

20.01.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When Harvard MBAs Can’t Find Jobs: How the Job Market Has Changed A Harvard MBA, in particular, has long been synonymous with unshakable job security, sky-high salaries, and limitless opportunities. Until now.

They should have majored in English

17.01.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Home Alone 1 is a Pepsi movie and Home Alone 2 is a Coke movie. Makes you think.

15.12.2024 02:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The kids are currently playing Luigi’s Mansion, blissfully unaware

11.12.2024 23:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Always my most anticipated year end list

07.12.2024 19:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Prepping for the season with the only Christmas album ever recorded.

24.11.2024 20:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Dr Oz thing might be what breaks me. It’s too on the nose.

19.11.2024 23:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Going to reiterate that everyone on this website should run for something. Tree warden, Senator, horse catcher, whatever. The Democratic Party is currently screaming at each other about precisely how much more racist and transphobic they should get. Sneak past them, primary an old guy, take control.

10.11.2024 03:27 πŸ‘ 6955 πŸ” 1467 πŸ’¬ 243 πŸ“Œ 225

My plan to not check the internet at all today is going: disastrously

05.11.2024 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh crap, I think I’m getting into prog rock (shivers)

16.10.2024 02:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rouuuuund here

10.07.2024 23:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy pi day (I was an English major)

14.05.2024 23:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Writers! For a Substack post im working on: do you listen to music when you write (and if so, any recs)?

20.03.2024 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Driving Backwards On writing in the wrong direction to find the right one

What does the movie Critters (1986) have to do with writing a novel? I wrote a post about that very topic!

06.02.2024 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Sometimes Dead is Better" The horror of Stephen King in 2023

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For spooky season, some thoughts on Horror and revisiting Stephen King’s corpus in 2023.

26.10.2023 19:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Sometimes Dead is Better" The horror of Stephen King in 2023

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For spooky season, some thoughts on Horror and revisiting Stephen King’s corpus in 2023.

26.10.2023 19:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Loose Change Bruce Springsteen's "Tracks" and the Art of Iteration

I wrote about Bruce Springsteen and what he taught me about drafting a novel.

26.09.2023 19:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for reading! It really is fun delving into those alternate universes.

26.09.2023 22:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Loose Change Bruce Springsteen's "Tracks" and the Art of Iteration

I wrote about Bruce Springsteen and what he taught me about drafting a novel.

26.09.2023 19:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay let’s see if this place is any better

19.09.2023 03:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0