Hurrah! Wait till you see what life is like with 3K subscribers! (In seriousness, who knows what makes people subscribe - it sometimes seems like the less I write, the more people sign up, so maybe I should just stop entirely until I get to 10K).
Thank you for the post. I'm a newbie, practicing here with no one to read. Kinda want to give up, but luckily read your post. Now I decided to write "Write 115 posts that don’t really go anywhere". Hope I can make it.
I can't tell you if you'll make it or not, but I can tell you that you'll definitely be a better writer by the end of those 115 posts! (At the utter bare minimum, you'll be much better at churning out words, which is a useful skill in and of itself [since churning out words is of course the foundation of all writing], but if you do a lot of harsh self-reflection and seeking out/listening to feedback—which includes looking at Substack statistics—you can do much better!)
This kinda reminds me of that Virginia Woolf reflection in Room of One’s Own…”so long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say”…
Haaaarj I do have a blog :(
(It's bad and inconsistent)
Hurrah! Wait till you see what life is like with 3K subscribers! (In seriousness, who knows what makes people subscribe - it sometimes seems like the less I write, the more people sign up, so maybe I should just stop entirely until I get to 10K).
Hey, I remember this format.
(Congrats!)
Thank you for the post. I'm a newbie, practicing here with no one to read. Kinda want to give up, but luckily read your post. Now I decided to write "Write 115 posts that don’t really go anywhere". Hope I can make it.
I can't tell you if you'll make it or not, but I can tell you that you'll definitely be a better writer by the end of those 115 posts! (At the utter bare minimum, you'll be much better at churning out words, which is a useful skill in and of itself [since churning out words is of course the foundation of all writing], but if you do a lot of harsh self-reflection and seeking out/listening to feedback—which includes looking at Substack statistics—you can do much better!)
This kinda reminds me of that Virginia Woolf reflection in Room of One’s Own…”so long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say”…