In this edition, you’ll get two of my go-to power-ups:
- Canva (visual content at lightning speed); and
- Class Central (search thousands of online courses, many of which are free).
Then we go deep.
I offer a postmortem on the original Chapter 15 of Ephemeris: A Library Without Time. In Issue 3 we shared the cut chapter, and this time we dissect it and explore why it was removed in Draft 2.
In this edition, you’ll get two of my go-to power-ups:
- The Bracket Draft (a low-tech, high-speed way to outrun your inner editor); and
- Write-Around AI (a smarter way to use ChatGPT).
Then we go deep.
I tell the story about how I made a last-minute decision to resurrect one chapter that had been cut from Ephemeris and cut another that had made the beta reader manuscript. Then I share the entire cut chapter (“A Library Without Time”).
In this edition, you’ll get two of my go-to power-ups:
- The Epistrophe (strategic repetition of a line or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences); and
- PromptMaker GPT, a meta-prompt assistant built on GPT (you tell it what you’re trying to write and it spits out a powerful custom prompt to use with ChatGPT).
Then we go deep.
I tell the story about how I made the terrifying decision 30,000 words in to break Ephemeris in half and reassemble it in an entirely different order. I was writing about a fractured world, and I needed my book to feel like that world it was depicting: fragmented, disoriented, uncertain.
I feared I would confuse or turn off my readers, but it was a chance I had to take.
This isn’t another productivity pep talk. The Cole Mine hands you real tools for real writing: no fluff, no guru vibes. In this edition, you’ll get two of my go-to power-ups: the Pomodoro Technique (aka the anti-spin-out method) and ProWritingAid, your new red-pen sidekick that knows when your sentence is lying to you. These aren’t theory. These are the tools I actually use to keep the words flowing and the chaos at bay.
Then we go deep.
I’m pulling back the curtain on how Ephemeris went from a lean little novella to an epic novel with lungs: 110,000 words and still breathing. It’s a story about letting go of word counts and chasing the story wherever it leads, even when it punches a hole right through your plans.
If you’re a writer who likes hacks and heart, this first-ever edition has got both.