Matt Kelland, Writer

After almost forty years of ghostwriting and editing corporate content, I'm now branching out into fiction and writing what I want to write.

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In the process of putting together the winter edition of my newsletter, which will come out somewhere around the solstice. If interested, sign up here.

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Unhack Your Brain was originally going to be called something to do with brain hacking. So why did I flip it?

The more I thought about it, the more disturbing the idea of hacking your brain became. And it's already being done to us.
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@BioticHamster @ArmandDoma It does, but only for posts, not comments.

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Fall colors are coming in, which means it's time for my annual autumn art project: making arrangements of leaves and flowers in random places.

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Launching on Sunday morning.

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I've been toying with writing for #audio recently, but hiring voice actors is out of my budget right now, so I figured I’d take a look at whether low-cost AI could provide a stopgap solution.

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This winter, I fancy trying something different. This is going to involve learning a whole lot of new skills. Anyone tried writing for this medium before?

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I’ve always thought of my stories as things you listen to, not things you read to yourself. I'm toying with turning some of them into audio over the winter.

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My twisted take on the magic lamp story. Read it for free.

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One of my quirks is that I love to read the books that well-known films are based on. These are a few you probably haven't read. You may not even realize that the movie was based on a book.

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Read the opening free on my Substack https://t.co/aaoc4mhfo8

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The hunt for an international terrorist leaves devastation in its wake. For poor Mrs Patel, Mumbai street seller, it's the start of a Kafkaesque journey to make things right and get her granddaughter's wedding back on track. Available on Amazon. https://t.co/2XEuorwTSo

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I'm joining the ranks of Agatha Christie, Dan Brown, Winston Churchill, John Milton, Voltaire, Dumas, and Dostoevsky - dictating my work instead of writing it.

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I think Michael Crichton's take on Beowulf is an unsung masterpiece.

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Reading this great book by Terry Pratchett at the moment and the mirror it holds up to humanity is frequently insightful.

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@BioticHamster @LGBTQPete My general rule for voting is that we already have enough old, rich, straight, white, Christian, conservative men in government. Give me a candidate/ticket who checks as few of those boxes as possible.

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@sbisson I often experience something similar in the US when people talk to me about immigrants and I respond that I'm an immigrant. "Oh, not YOU," they say.

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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about audio, specifically whether I should start doing my blog posts as audio rather than prose.

What do you think? Do you listen to author podcasts? Would you listen to mine?

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When is cultural appropriation inappropriate?
I am not a poor old woman living in Mumbai. Mrs Patel, however, is. Should I be telling Mrs Patel’s story, or am I committing the unforgivable sin of cultural appropriation? And should I do it anyway?

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Would you read a story that came out in parts? And if so, how much would you expect in each part to make it a satisfying experience? How often would you want new episodes? Would it depend on the type of story?

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