Hi! I'm Rayaan — a journalist, ghostwriter & newsletterist from India.
I turn your decades of expertise into stories that outlast your life, and use fictional worlds to help you think deeply and imagine better.
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The Fiction Emailer is for...
You believe in writing
Writing sharpens thinking.
You believe writing sharpens thinking — and that the sharpest founders write their way to clarity, not around it.
You read with intent
"What does this mean for the real world?"
You read fiction not just to escape, but to test its ideas against the world you actually work in.
You study the craft
How do successful writers actually write?
You're curious how successful writers actually write — the process behind the prose, not just the byline.
You think long-term
Legacy as a thought leader.
You often think about leaving a legacy as a thought leader — something that outlasts this year's feed.
How The Fiction Emailer can help you
Write With Intent
You will learn to tell your story by yourself, and use AI tools only to amplify the thinking process.
Imagine an Optimistic Future
You will see how stories can reshape the way we think of our future, and use fictional worlds to make sense of complex issues surrounding us.
Think Independently
You will look for alternative thoughts to an existing point of view, and stop reading the future from a doomsayer perspective.
Build Your Legacy
You will use your online writing as the seed to build something that outlasts your life, as a Future-First Thinker.
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What you get from each edition
Real Fiction Stories
Essays set in a fictional world but grounded in contemporary issues.
Read how today's questions look from the future, so you can reimagine it through future-first thinking.
The Long-Term Game
Curated Reads Delivered Every Monday on Future-First Thinking.
Learn how accomplished founders and creators write & think to build something that outlasts their life, and apply the same frameworks yourself.
The Writer's Craft
Fortnightly interviews featuring Journalists, Online Creators & Newsletterists.
Tips on how to tell your story so you can write consistently in public, for the love of it.
The World-Builder's Map
Fortnightly analysis of creative fiction writing.
Lessons from popular novelists' storytelling and imagination frameworks, applied to your own writing, so you can pass on your work wisdom to a larger network.
My Views on AI + Writing
I don't use AI to write or edit
I'm old-school — I use notebooks to handwrite ideas, then MS Word or Google Docs to pen essays, with basic in-built grammar checks.
Writing is one of life's gifts
I strongly believe using AI to 'write' takes away the joy of experiencing one of the real miracles of being human.
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