This Is All Carrie Fisher’s Fault

Years ago, Carrie told me something simple.

“Take your broken heart and go make art.”

After Carrie died, I wrote a novel inspired by my time as her personal assistant. When I got ball cancer, I made a web series about picking out the perfect fake testicle to replace the cancery one.

And I’ve followed that advice over and over through other moments of despair, boredom, rejection, ambition, spirals, success, shame, and long stretches of feeling unmoored.

It’s been a mantra. It’s been medicine.

Byrontology grew out of that practice.

What is Byrontology?

Byrontology is where creatives, overthinkers, and the existentially exhausted turn despair, boredom, and paralysis into creative momentum.

It’s a newsletter, community, and creative practice—disguised as a cult.

The cult part is satire. The help is real.

How Does It Work?

Each week, I send you a piece of writing meant to steady and support you. Personal. Observant. Made from emotional material and shaped into something you can use.

Read it, delete it, it’s okay. It’s also a reminder you have a toolbox here when you want it, filled with:

Comfort
Direct from my Notes app, mantras and musings I reach for when the spiral gets too deep.

Creativity
The mechanics of turning rejection, boredom, jealousy, loss, and despair into a book, movie, joke, walk, letter, meal, or meaningful moment.

Connection
When you feel alone, if you want, you’ll find space to be in conversation with others in the creative community, or directly with me.

Choose Your Seat

Free Subscription

• Occasional posts to help you feel grounded and seen. No fixing. No pressure.

Paid Subscription (Cheaper than buying me a cup of coffee, way more meaningful.)

• Full access to my writing, including handmade books and journals.

• Ongoing conversation with fellow creatives, or directly with me.

• A look at my creative practice—how the work actually gets made.

Founding Patrons

• For patrons of the arts who want to support Byrontology at a higher level. Stewardship, personal creative guidance when requested, and my sincere gratitude.

Frankly, it’s Paid Subscribers and Founding Patrons who make this dream possible.
I don’t take that lightly.
But do what’s right for you.

I’m glad you’re here, regardless.

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