E. Robert Pugh
@erobertpugh.bsky.social
I am Evan. I am a writer, an affable dude, and a die-hard Dodgers fan.
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Two weeks of Thou Art That--and a pretty cool announcement! Check out this week's update, live meow.
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Keep Going, Keep Pushing, Keep Trying - TWIW - Late November
Two weeks of Thou Art That--and a pretty cool announcement!
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Two weeks of Thou Art That--and a pretty cool announcement! Check out this week's update, live meow.
erobertpugh.substack.com/p/keep-going...
#twiw #writing #updates #announcement #excitement #writer
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#twiw #writing #updates #announcement #excitement #writer
We did it, everyone! My first short story, "Of the Day Come Now Gone," is published in the Winter 2025 edition of the New Feathers Anthology! Check it out at the link below, they linked it with a pretty cool art piece: www.newfeathersanthology.com/of-the-day-c...
Of the Day Come Now Gone
Of the Day Come Now Gone E. Robert Pugh Of a village on the shore where the terraced houses step toward the sea, a giant’s staircase coarsened by sand in the distended sunlight,...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We did it, everyone! My first short story, "Of the Day Come Now Gone," is published in the Winter 2025 edition of the New Feathers Anthology! Check it out at the link below, they linked it with a pretty cool art piece: www.newfeathersanthology.com/of-the-day-c...
Toward the center of Once Again we go. Check out this week's update!
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A Heliocentric Approach - TWIW - 11/3/25 - 11/16/25
Toward the center of Once Again we journey
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Toward the center of Once Again we go. Check out this week's update!
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Check out Aim and Allow and Etch Ever Forward, this week's writing update. We're talkin' Third Acts, Truth, and Slowing Myself Down.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Check out Aim and Allow and Etch Ever Forward, this week's writing update. We're talkin' Third Acts, Truth, and Slowing Myself Down.
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#writing #onwriting #twiw
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#writing #onwriting #twiw
We talk about rote process and sweeping changes in "Stuck and Unstuck," this week's
update!
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update!
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Stuck and Unstuck - TWIW - 9/15/25 - 9/28/25
From Sweeping Changes to Rote Process
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October 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We talk about rote process and sweeping changes in "Stuck and Unstuck," this week's
update!
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#twiw #writing #update #literature #philosophy
update!
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With Clayton Kershaw retiring, I welcome you to revisit the piece I wrote about him. Watching his career was a blessing and a bellwether. I wrote this piece in 2022, when I first thought he was hangin'em up, but everything definitely still applies.
#dodgers #GOAT #kershaw #retirement #essay
#dodgers #GOAT #kershaw #retirement #essay
Tonight, We are Young: On Kershaw and His Legacy
Clayton Edward Kershaw. His birthday is one day after mine, and he was drafted the year I got into baseball, the year I graduated high school. It was an ascendant rise from the moment he struck out…
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September 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
With Clayton Kershaw retiring, I welcome you to revisit the piece I wrote about him. Watching his career was a blessing and a bellwether. I wrote this piece in 2022, when I first thought he was hangin'em up, but everything definitely still applies.
#dodgers #GOAT #kershaw #retirement #essay
#dodgers #GOAT #kershaw #retirement #essay
Check out the Art of Making Cheese, the latest Week in Words where I talk about writing Victory #Cheese, as well as some thoughts on #turtles, #philosophy, and To the #Lighthouse.
#writing #amwriting #twiw #update #literature #mantras #shortstories #onwriting
#writing #amwriting #twiw #update #literature #mantras #shortstories #onwriting
The Art of Making Cheese - TWIW - 8/25/25 - 9/7/25
On writing Victory Cheese, and some thoughts on turtles, philosophy, and To the Lighthouse
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September 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Check out the Art of Making Cheese, the latest Week in Words where I talk about writing Victory #Cheese, as well as some thoughts on #turtles, #philosophy, and To the #Lighthouse.
#writing #amwriting #twiw #update #literature #mantras #shortstories #onwriting
#writing #amwriting #twiw #update #literature #mantras #shortstories #onwriting
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Check out Victory Cheese, about a WWII victory celebration sent sideways by some very powerful cheese.
#shortstory #fiction #writer #writing #amwriting #periodpiece #ww2
Check out Victory Cheese, about a WWII victory celebration sent sideways by some very powerful cheese.
#shortstory #fiction #writer #writing #amwriting #periodpiece #ww2
September 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Check out Victory Cheese, about a WWII victory celebration sent sideways by some very powerful cheese.
#shortstory #fiction #writer #writing #amwriting #periodpiece #ww2
Check out Victory Cheese, about a WWII victory celebration sent sideways by some very powerful cheese.
#shortstory #fiction #writer #writing #amwriting #periodpiece #ww2
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Check out this week's update. We're talking about how characters inform the plot.
#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #update #blog
Check out this week's update. We're talking about how characters inform the plot.
#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #update #blog
The Discovery of Character - TWIW - 8/11/25 - 8/24/25
How the People Inform the Plot
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August 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Check out this week's update. We're talking about how characters inform the plot.
#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #update #blog
Check out this week's update. We're talking about how characters inform the plot.
#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #update #blog
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Check out the Week in Words to hear about "Thou Art That," Ground Work and Research! It was an exciting week full of discovery.
#writing #amwriting #blog #update
Check out the Week in Words to hear about "Thou Art That," Ground Work and Research! It was an exciting week full of discovery.
#writing #amwriting #blog #update
Ignite the Flame - TWIW - 8/4/25 - 8/10/25
On "Thou Art That," Ground Work and Research
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August 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Check out the Week in Words to hear about "Thou Art That," Ground Work and Research! It was an exciting week full of discovery.
#writing #amwriting #blog #update
Check out the Week in Words to hear about "Thou Art That," Ground Work and Research! It was an exciting week full of discovery.
#writing #amwriting #blog #update
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End, Begin, Transcend - The latest Week in Words is live. We talk about completion, reflection, and discovery. Check it out meow!
#writing #writingcommunity #update #blog #amwriting #finishline
End, Begin, Transcend - The latest Week in Words is live. We talk about completion, reflection, and discovery. Check it out meow!
#writing #writingcommunity #update #blog #amwriting #finishline
August 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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End, Begin, Transcend - The latest Week in Words is live. We talk about completion, reflection, and discovery. Check it out meow!
#writing #writingcommunity #update #blog #amwriting #finishline
End, Begin, Transcend - The latest Week in Words is live. We talk about completion, reflection, and discovery. Check it out meow!
#writing #writingcommunity #update #blog #amwriting #finishline
I finished the first storyline for Avalanche this past week, and wanted to share some stats with all the other word nerds out there.
Written 1/1/2024 - 7/29/25
488,187 total words (899 pages [183,396] + 304,791 typed) — 377/577 days (.653 wrPCT) — 1,295/day — 39,359 in Avalanche — Ratio: 8
Written 1/1/2024 - 7/29/25
488,187 total words (899 pages [183,396] + 304,791 typed) — 377/577 days (.653 wrPCT) — 1,295/day — 39,359 in Avalanche — Ratio: 8
August 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I finished the first storyline for Avalanche this past week, and wanted to share some stats with all the other word nerds out there.
Written 1/1/2024 - 7/29/25
488,187 total words (899 pages [183,396] + 304,791 typed) — 377/577 days (.653 wrPCT) — 1,295/day — 39,359 in Avalanche — Ratio: 8
Written 1/1/2024 - 7/29/25
488,187 total words (899 pages [183,396] + 304,791 typed) — 377/577 days (.653 wrPCT) — 1,295/day — 39,359 in Avalanche — Ratio: 8
Let's talk about the month that was! Here's Nearing the Peak, my update for July. We'll be back to a weekly/biweekly cadence.
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Nearing the Peak - A Month in Words - 6/30/25 - 7/27/25
A month where we pushed toward our goal
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July 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Let's talk about the month that was! Here's Nearing the Peak, my update for July. We'll be back to a weekly/biweekly cadence.
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It's Summer Break 'round these parts. Look for The Week in Words to return in the last week of July!!
July 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's Summer Break 'round these parts. Look for The Week in Words to return in the last week of July!!
Grind, Push, Perpetuate. A post about resistance, sameness, and the Pouring of Time.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Grind, Push, Perpetuate. A post about resistance, sameness, and the Pouring of Time.
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#writing #update #twiw #writingcommunity
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#writing #update #twiw #writingcommunity
We poured our time into the Pouring of Time. Check out On Slumps and Sequences, the latest Week in Words post! #twiw
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#writing #writer #blog #update #amwriting
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June 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
We poured our time into the Pouring of Time. Check out On Slumps and Sequences, the latest Week in Words post! #twiw
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"A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions."
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, pg. 134.
#literature
#quotes
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, pg. 134.
#literature
#quotes
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions."
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, pg. 134.
#literature
#quotes
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, pg. 134.
#literature
#quotes
June 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rhodomontade." -Billy Corgan, the egoist.
June 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rhodomontade." -Billy Corgan, the egoist.
"Mountains are not provided with escalators for dreamers." Edward O. Wilson
June 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Mountains are not provided with escalators for dreamers." Edward O. Wilson
Stats and highlights for May!
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#writing #amwriting #stats #data #blog #update #TWIW
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#writing #amwriting #stats #data #blog #update #TWIW
The Month in Words - May 2025
Stats and Highlights for May!
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June 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Stats and highlights for May!
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#writing #amwriting #stats #data #blog #update #TWIW
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The Week in Words - 5/12/25 - 5/25/25
All about the Pouring of Time
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May 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Check out my new flash fiction piece, Of the Day Come Now Gone!
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#shortstory #flashfiction
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#shortstory #flashfiction
Of the Day Come Now Gone
Flash Fiction
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May 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Check out my new flash fiction piece, Of the Day Come Now Gone!
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#shortstory #flashfiction
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#shortstory #flashfiction
A week where new ideas took shape. Check out this week's update:
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#writing #blogpost #amwriting
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The Week in Words - 5/5/25 - 5/11/25
[Something Catchy]
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May 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A week where new ideas took shape. Check out this week's update:
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#writing #blogpost #amwriting
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