Reasons Not To Quit is high-leverage support and insight for writers, creatives, and everyone trying to think smarter, write better, and find pragmatic, useful ways to cope with life's arrrgh.
Reasons Not To Quit is
Snack-sized doses of encouragement and perspective every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
A bullshit-free zone that can help get your brain out of a rut
Longer reads about sanity, creativity, audacity, and useful rebrainment
A brand new book, It Ain’t Gonna Lick Itself: Housekeeping In Spite Of It All, serializing weekly
Skill-building for writers and researchers in the RNTQ: For Writers department
And more… classes, cohorts, and whatever else we’ve got up our sleeves
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About Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd
Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd is the author of a number of books including It Ain’t Gonna Lick Itself: Housekeeping In Spite of It All (2024, serialized here), Fat (2020, Bloomsbury), Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (2014, Beacon Press), Virgin: The Untouched History (2007, Bloomsbury), and numerous others. Her books have been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Turkish.
Hanne is an writer and editor providing a comprehensive suite of literary services from project development to advanced developmental editing and ghostwriting, and a personal consultant/coach in private practice.
On Substack, Hanne writes Reasons Not to Quit, a newsletter for writers, creators, and everyone trying to think smarter, write better, and find ways to cope with life's arrrgh. Reasons Not to Quit began on Twitter in November 2016 as a daily dose of motivation and audacity, and ran for 5 years before taking a hiatus. It relaunched into a new incarnation on Substack in May 2024.
A historian, bioethicist, and opera singer by training, Dr. Blank Boyd holds degrees from Emory University, Indiana University, and the New England Conservatory of Music. Formerly on faculty at Denison University, she has been a lecturer and visiting speaker at institutions including Harvard University, Brandeis University, Emory University School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Alabama, and many others.
Hanne Blank Boyd lives with her family in a small town tucked into the salt marshes and historical pirate coves of the Cape Fear river delta, a few miles from a barrier island where she can regularly be found walking the dogs on the beach.
