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Essays and Reflections on craft (poetry & fiction), philosophy, publishing & literary industry.

Poetry & Hybrid Pieces.

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Jan 21, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

Community Events Hub

Jan 21, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

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FREE ESSAYS

Tension in Dialogue

20 Types of Tension to Keep Your Scenes Pulsing

Jun 27, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

Every Literary Genre Boiled Down to 2 words

Literary canons on cocktail napkins

Dec 20, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

Fearless, in a Digital Age

Five ways to shear the fear, keep your head above the herd, and stay human.

Dec 13, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat and PHIL LIT Journal

The 15-Minute Drift

What is it & How to use it

Nov 21, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

Essential Vocabulary Series

25 Words You Should Absolutely Know Before Writing Fiction

Essential Vocabulary for Writers - 5 Part Series

May 5, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

22 Words You Should Absolutely Know Before Writing Poetry

Essential Vocabulary for Serious Writers - 5 Part Series

May 7, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

11 Words You Should Absolutely Know Before Querying an Agent

Essential Vocabulary for Serious Writers - 5 Part Series

May 9, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

20 Words You Should Absolutely Know Before Workshopping

Essential Vocabulary for Serious Writers - 5 Part Series

May 16, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

20 Words You Should Absolutely Know Before Submitting to a Publisher

Essential Vocabulary for Writers - 5 Part Series

May 27, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

PUBLICATIONS & NEWS

Astral Academy & The Subtle Realm is now available on Substack.

Serialized Fiction

Nov 21, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

Franklin Finds a Home

A children's book.

Jul 21, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat and Tamsin

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Hen or Roo? and what to do.

Sanity Ranch Media : Published Fall 2024

Jan 27, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

Club Daze is on Audible!

1🥚 free downloads to the first 10 subscribers to message "DAZE".

Jan 21, 2025 • 🤍 NJ Simat

NJ. Simat - Editor, Poet, Author.

This is my office on the internet. I'm always here: to refresh spirit, entertain, and build community through sharing candid craft and literary industry insights as an editor to a litmag, a novelist, and a poet.

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