The Only Truly Universal Writing Advice

The most popular link last time was this (now paywalled) Ask Molly column, with the Guardian review of my husband's new book, Lady C, second.

1. As a barbecue hater, I enjoyed this.
2. A Q&A with an interesting writer, who gives the only truly universal writing advice: "Don't try to match anyone else's routine; write around the life you have. That's what I've always tried to do."
3. An addictive and weirdly difficult browser game.
4. Back in February, I shared Rebecca Black's excellent cover of "Fame is a Gun" by Addison Rae. Now Rachel Zegler has done one too, which I also enjoyed, although it's much more Broadway, of course. (Sidenote: this is from that Las Culturistas TV awards thing, and everything else I've seen from it has been unbearably cringe for reasons I can't really articulate. But good for them for working out how to adapt a podcast for TV, I guess?)
5. Speaking of: The banality of the video podcast.
6. A list of fiction to read that will teach you more about business/strategy than any business book.
7. Do you subscribe to Numlock News? You should. They regularly introduce stories with great sentences like this: "New York’s hottest club is the sewer system, at least according to three separate surveillance footage videos of people inexplicably entering the sewer system."
8. Snippets from secret recordings of phone calls this person's dad made when she was a child?!
9. How to Land a Celebrity Profile: with difficulty, basically. "A publicist will say the celebrity will only answer questions about x product, and the editor will then need to reply, explaining that journalism is not the same as branded content."
10. A very earnest argument for men not wearing quarter-zip tops.
11. Can you tell colours apart?
12. Good for Harriet Taylor Mill.
13. This is about Bath & Body Works, and Lana Del Rey, and also somehow the decline of how America smells.