The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

When the bike seat hurts

Keep on writing

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Jim Dalling
Jan 05, 2026
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Alo dear reader,

You’ll likely be pleased to find out that I have, for the time being, shelved stories about Ricky and myself solving a mystery surrounding a global cabal that controls humanity through sewage.

After four posts and a couple of thousand words the joke wore a bit thin.

But there will be more. Stories featuring Ricky and Jimmy mailing themselves all over the world and solving mysteries might appear periodically.

Ricky is a creative type. He’d like to write. Maybe I should write about working as a delivery driver. I’ll write about what I know.

The key?

Just write.

Too much pressure to stay within a form or format can get in the way of writing every day.

Like today for example.

I was way late with my post about the porta pottie plot.

Why?

I didn’t want to write it.

I’d become bored with that idea and wanted to shift.

So if you want to be a writer, write every day.

Just write and keep going.

When you’re bored with writing?

Write.

No ideas?

Just write.

Grind it out.

If I learned anything in…

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