About The Disaster Draft

Hi, I’m Mickey - writer, audio enthusiast, and professional overthinker. I started The Disaster Draft as a place to chronicle the chaos of writing fiction and the strange, feral process of making anything good.

This is not a productivity newsletter.
This is not a how-to.
This is a documentation of what it feels like to write in the dark—and sometimes light a match.

Here, you’ll find:

• 💀 Fiction (weird, queer, sad, speculative)

• 🧠 Essays about rejection, obsession, imposter syndrome, and staying soft in a sharp world.

• 📖 Behind-the-scenes on novels and audio dramas in progress

• 📝 Craft thoughts that spiral into diary entries and back again

I write about art the way I experience it: obsessively, emotionally, and with a hint of bite. This is a space for writers, readers, and anyone who has ever looked at a blank page and felt equal parts dread and devotion.

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