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Writing advice for life.
Letters on writing, artistic practice, and the lives we find within them.
The Reading is an independent newsletter by Yanyi. It gathers reflections, questions, and advice for writers and artists trying to make a life in and around their work.
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‘How Do I Make More Time to Write?’
Dear reader, Over the past several years, I have been obsessed with the idea of "having time to write." What this has meant: shut door, total silence, and words on the page.
May 2025: Doing Less, More
Maybe the point is to do less, more.
‘Does It Honor Life?’
Recent events have reminded me of the first anti-trans, alt-right blowup on newsletter platforms in 2021. If you are a writer on a newsletter platform that doesn't align with your values, you
