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🔝 2026 Q1 - An Inneresting Digest

A best of compilation of recent links from the Inneresting newsletter, covering writing and topics interesting to writers.

Chris Csont

24 Mar 2026 — 3 min read

If you landed here after searching for the Eric Roberts-starring Best of the Best, you might still want to stick around.

This editor has been told he can be A Lot (complimentary?), and sometimes that comes out as packing too many links on a single topic into an issue.

For newer readers, or for those of you who might have missed one of these links the first time around, let's dive in to this condensed version of the best of recent issues of Inneresting!

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Erin Fulmer gives a full-throated defense of pantsing your way through drafts, and calls out the myth that planning is a cure-all for writer’s block.

Dave Trottier shares a a wide-ranging look at Galaxy Quest’s lessons for writers.

Cal Newport posts on influencers demonstrating their complicated daily routines where a creator insults their audience's intelligence and steals their attention.

Blackbird Spyplane fights the battle to actively retrain his mental capacity for sustained attention, and to stop living each moment like it could be mined for content.

Have you checked out WikiFlix? It's a free, no sign-up required site for streaming films in the public domain.

"You can trust me. I did a 100% run on Sim City 2000."

Adam Bonica shows us what America could look like if it followed the example of its peer nations, and how America’s problems are mainly solved problems.

And if you need that last little push to open yourself up without fear, try James McCrae’s poem Instructions before visiting Earth, with the option to read it yourself or listen to it (if you’re not opposed to an ambient/new-age sound bed).

Don’t keep your soft heart
locked inside a glass cage
protected from wear and tear.

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Every greatest hits compilation needs a few original tracks

Mina Tavakoli sails away with a retrospective on Pure Moods (both the album and its iconic TV commercial).
Danny Boyd engages in an experiment: Cut down Spider-Man 3 into a 22-minute episode of The Twilight Zone.
Olga Khazan checks in with psychologists who argue that dating profiles are useless; humans can't effectively explain what qualities they're attracted to, and don't recognize a good match until it's staring them in the literal face.

And that's what was most inneresting to readers!

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