The Weakly #2: running for fiction, Global Running Day, and new podcast

This week, I dive into running's effect on the fiction-writing process of Clancy Steadwell as well as a little look at the Nike Pegasus 41 and more creativity. It's fun.

What is The Weakly about? Highlighting more cool stuff around the internet that is also tangentially related to running. Enjoy. Please.

This week, we’ll dive into the process of one of my favorite literary fiction writers on Substack. The creator of

Porn Name Pseudonym

is a runner.

Writers Who Run:

Clancy Steadwell

I like short stories. I always have. While I’m here, ostensibly sending out my soft news missives in the world of running, I take more time to read the oodles of fiction work on Substack. It’s a less popular genre, perhaps, but it fills a hole in my soul that nothing else can.

Clancy Steadwell, then. A nom de plume, if it wasn’t clear. Clancy writes with a not dissimilar tone to me - a soupcon of fun, embedded in a much more serious subject. They run similarly to me as well: primarily solo - a way of life most writers are well accustomed to. Running became an integral part of Clancy’s life in 2020. COVID and increased isolation led to exercise-oriented desires. Clancy ran and ran.

What do you feel when you run?

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