Other people have had (and will have!) "your" ideas, and that's okay

Or: why metal detecting, my newest trash hobby, offers valuable wisdom for writers.

This newsletter is about metal detecting. Well, not really. It’s about the writing wisdom contained within my newest weird-ass hobby.

Like writers, people who metal detect are in search of buried treasure. Like writers, they generally dig and flail a LOT before finding anything good. And like writers, the thing most of them REALLY long for is not so much…