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Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd. Writer, editor, literary services. (https://drhanneblankboyd.substack.com/p/litservice) The person behind Reasons Not To Quit (http://rntq.substack.com). Mailing list: https://drhanneblankboyd.eo.page/r2pzd
The text of a letter I sent to state officials: “If you endorse 18 year olds to carry firearms without a permit you are accepting that one of them could show up at your office and shoot you with one. Perhaps you are suicidal or just stupid but such personal problems make rotten laws."
April 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The text of a letter I sent to state officials: “If you endorse 18 year olds to carry firearms without a permit you are accepting that one of them could show up at your office and shoot you with one. Perhaps you are suicidal or just stupid but such personal problems make rotten laws."
Know what I like? I like finding out that the royalties office for one of my publishers is actually based in another country entirely so I can ring them 3 whole entire hours before any business office in my own country would be open, and they answer the phone. #morningpersonthings
April 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Know what I like? I like finding out that the royalties office for one of my publishers is actually based in another country entirely so I can ring them 3 whole entire hours before any business office in my own country would be open, and they answer the phone. #morningpersonthings
Did you know that Reasons Not To Quit is on YouTube? And that I post videos about life — and dubious heavy equipment operator decisions — as well as Reasons Not To Quit?
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Tempting Fate: An Incoming Tide Story
YouTube video by Reasons Not To Quit
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March 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Did you know that Reasons Not To Quit is on YouTube? And that I post videos about life — and dubious heavy equipment operator decisions — as well as Reasons Not To Quit?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=se7n...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=se7n...
Today in Reasons Not To Quit… a little tribute to a favorite dive bar.
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A Reason Not To Quit for March 26, 2025
#133
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March 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today in Reasons Not To Quit… a little tribute to a favorite dive bar.
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You say you want to write a book.
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
So You Want To Write A Book
an immersive 7-week course in book writing strategy, structure, and practice, April 10-May 22, 2025
rntq.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
You say you want to write a book.
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
I dunno what all y’all are grateful for today, but today I am grateful for every single person who is getting creative in response to the world’s much-too-plentiful fuckery.
Grateful for those who find ways to brew up the antidote.
(You know how to do it too.)
Grateful for those who find ways to brew up the antidote.
(You know how to do it too.)
March 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I dunno what all y’all are grateful for today, but today I am grateful for every single person who is getting creative in response to the world’s much-too-plentiful fuckery.
Grateful for those who find ways to brew up the antidote.
(You know how to do it too.)
Grateful for those who find ways to brew up the antidote.
(You know how to do it too.)
Today in Reasons Not To Quit, a little meditation about community and clear-sightedness and what they have to do with me and you.
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A Reason Not To Quit for March 17, 2025
#129
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March 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Today in Reasons Not To Quit, a little meditation about community and clear-sightedness and what they have to do with me and you.
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rntq.substack.com/p/a-reason-n...
It’s always interesting to me when a post in a series I planned and scheduled months ago turns out to be particularly relevant to the moment.
Then again, with this one, there was a pretty high chance it would.
open.substack.com/pub/rntq/p/g...
Then again, with this one, there was a pretty high chance it would.
open.substack.com/pub/rntq/p/g...
Getting History Righter
What You Need To Know To Do Historical Research Better
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March 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It’s always interesting to me when a post in a series I planned and scheduled months ago turns out to be particularly relevant to the moment.
Then again, with this one, there was a pretty high chance it would.
open.substack.com/pub/rntq/p/g...
Then again, with this one, there was a pretty high chance it would.
open.substack.com/pub/rntq/p/g...
You say you want to write a book.
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
So You Want To Write A Book
an immersive 7-week course in book writing strategy, structure, and practice, April 10-May 22, 2025
rntq.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
You say you want to write a book.
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
If you really mean it, I’ll help you do it by the end of 2025.
4 spaces remaining.
7 weeks.
2 hours of class time/week.
22 worksheets/templates (highly reusable).
1 hour of 1:1 coaching.
All genres. Academics also welcome.
rntq.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: what you can learn from the big peach in Gaffney, SC.
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A Reason Not To Quit for March 10, 2025
#126
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March 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: what you can learn from the big peach in Gaffney, SC.
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Dr. Caitlin Rivers has put out a call for patients/patient advocates who would like to co-create work to educate health care professionals about how to improve their healthcare.
You know what to do, my beauties.
centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/res...
You know what to do, my beauties.
centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/res...
Voices in Print: Elevating Patient Perspectives in Medical Literature | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
The primary aim of this project is to engage with patients or their advocates to support them in crafting compelling editorials or perspective pieces for publication in academic journals that contribu...
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March 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Dr. Caitlin Rivers has put out a call for patients/patient advocates who would like to co-create work to educate health care professionals about how to improve their healthcare.
You know what to do, my beauties.
centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/res...
You know what to do, my beauties.
centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/res...
Just ordered a stack of new notebooks, of the Correct Sort for taking notes while in meetings, a few of the Correct Sort for longhand drafting, and a fistful of Magic Editing Pencils.
It's ON, comrades.
It's ON, comrades.
March 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just ordered a stack of new notebooks, of the Correct Sort for taking notes while in meetings, a few of the Correct Sort for longhand drafting, and a fistful of Magic Editing Pencils.
It's ON, comrades.
It's ON, comrades.
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: Doubt and jackasses rarely occupy the same space.
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A Reason Not To Quit for March 5, 2025
#124
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March 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: Doubt and jackasses rarely occupy the same space.
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rntq.substack.com/p/a-reason-n...
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: fixing a hole and other small victories.
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Small Victory
a needle and thread story
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March 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: fixing a hole and other small victories.
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I wept last night when I heard that Miss Dolly's husband of nearly 60 years, Mister Carl, had passed. The world has had so few big public models for straight men who love women well enough not just to let them shine their brightest but to take joy in it. Ad astra, Carl Dean.
March 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I wept last night when I heard that Miss Dolly's husband of nearly 60 years, Mister Carl, had passed. The world has had so few big public models for straight men who love women well enough not just to let them shine their brightest but to take joy in it. Ad astra, Carl Dean.
I’ve decided to play around with doing Reasons Not To Quit in video form as well as in the traditional written one.
If you like that sort of thing, you may find it to be the sort of thing you like.
www.youtube.com/@ReasonsNotT...
If you like that sort of thing, you may find it to be the sort of thing you like.
www.youtube.com/@ReasonsNotT...
Reasons Not To Quit
Reasons Not To Quit is what it says on the label.
Do you need some Reasons Not To Quit? I've got you covered.
Insight, humor, a little bit of butt-kicking, and a Reason Not To Quit every Monday, Wed...
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February 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I’ve decided to play around with doing Reasons Not To Quit in video form as well as in the traditional written one.
If you like that sort of thing, you may find it to be the sort of thing you like.
www.youtube.com/@ReasonsNotT...
If you like that sort of thing, you may find it to be the sort of thing you like.
www.youtube.com/@ReasonsNotT...
Choose Shamelessness -- I took this out from behind the paywall because it's important.
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Choose Shamelessness
Chapter 9
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February 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Choose Shamelessness -- I took this out from behind the paywall because it's important.
open.substack.com/pub/rntq/p/c...
open.substack.com/pub/rntq/p/c...
It's a weird day when I realize that I just had the thought "Well, by comparison, Berlusconi's basically a Boy Scout."
February 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It's a weird day when I realize that I just had the thought "Well, by comparison, Berlusconi's basically a Boy Scout."
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: A healthy quantity of fake pink rose petals and long-eyelashed cartoon unicorns and plastic cups with Disney princesses on them, it turns out, make some damn fine weapons in the arsenal of light.
Happy Birthday to Me (and You)
celebrating the things that get better
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February 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Today in Reasons Not To Quit: A healthy quantity of fake pink rose petals and long-eyelashed cartoon unicorns and plastic cups with Disney princesses on them, it turns out, make some damn fine weapons in the arsenal of light.
Today in RNTQ, a little bit of vintage (literally archival) Alison Bechdel art
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A Reason Not To Quit for February 24, 2025
#120
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February 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today in RNTQ, a little bit of vintage (literally archival) Alison Bechdel art
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If your book doesn't get written, it can't change the world.
If you don't know where to start in writing your book, I can help you.
drhanneblankboyd.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
If you don't know where to start in writing your book, I can help you.
drhanneblankboyd.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
So You Want To Write A Book
an immersive 7-week course in book writing strategy, structure, and practice, April 10-May 22, 2025
drhanneblankboyd.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If your book doesn't get written, it can't change the world.
If you don't know where to start in writing your book, I can help you.
drhanneblankboyd.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
If you don't know where to start in writing your book, I can help you.
drhanneblankboyd.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
Buckle up, y'all, it's a threefer day at Reasons Not To Quit.
Here's your first helping: pop quizzes and Barbie-pink metal pigs
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Here's your first helping: pop quizzes and Barbie-pink metal pigs
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A Reason Not To Quit for February 21, 2025
#119
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February 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Buckle up, y'all, it's a threefer day at Reasons Not To Quit.
Here's your first helping: pop quizzes and Barbie-pink metal pigs
rntq.substack.com/p/a-reason-n...
Here's your first helping: pop quizzes and Barbie-pink metal pigs
rntq.substack.com/p/a-reason-n...