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The Daily Whatever, May 1: Writers on Writing

With very special guest Walter Rhein!

By Dana DuBois, Lawrence Winnerman, and Walter RheinMay 1, 2025 · 1 min read

What a blast we had, hosting the delightful Walter Rhein and nerding out about all things writing.

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet so we can send the video live straight away. Have a listen to learn about our respective writing styles.

The TL;DR is:

Walter favors a rapid-fire write and publish approach.
Dana favors a “stew for hours in memoir dust” approach.
Lawrence has a nonbinary muse entity who visits him with story ideas.

What’s your approach to writing? Let us know in the comments.

And be sure to tune into tomorrow for “Fucked-up Friday,” where we each come prepared with the most fucked-up news story of the week, and then vote on which wins the prize for most fucked-up.

We’ll be joined by the amazing Kevin Alexander from On Repeat Records, so I’m sure we’re gonna talk music too.

Hope to see you there at 10am ET/7am PT.

Love you mean it!!

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Dana DuBois

The memoirist

Dana DuBois is a memoirist and Gen X word nerd based in the Pacific Northwest. She founded I Write Out Loud, her Substack publication, where she writes across a range of subjects; parenting, music and pop culture, relationships, and feminism are her favorites. She co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. Em dashes, Oxford commas, and well-placed semicolons make her heart happy. All stories by Dana

Lawrence Winnerman

The science fiction writer

Lawrence Winnerman is a science fiction writer in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After twenty-five years leading technology programs at Amazon and Microsoft, he was chief operating officer of Blue Amp Media. In his Substack publication, The Hinge & The Near Field, he writes about AI and democracy and is serializing his novel Light Shines Through. He co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. All stories by Lawrence