thank you thank you for your thoughtfulness!!!! this is amazing advice. not starting a substack yet but will be remembering this for my student newspaper articles 😁😁
I love your last point in #3 - if nobody's reading this yet, it's free to be not as good / just for you / whatever frees you to finish and publish it. I've used this so many times to flip the script from "Why bother, barely anyone's going to read this" to "This is awesome! I can write whatever I want!"
Just read this and wow. I felt so seen. The way you broke down overthinking into something workable instead of shameful was such a relief. It’s like permission to write as a human, not a machine.
Hi! great post. Helpful. Can you write about anything and everything at first (while no audience) and later delete some earlier posts as you hone and find your niche? Would you recommend this to better streamline your publication? thanks
Thank you I will definitely use this to write from now on 🙂 about… finding my values in life, what living on autopilot feels like to me, and the tricks I learnt on the way to get out of it ! Maybe ? 😊 to be continued…
Thanks for this. After listening to you on the Internet People podcast talking about The Artist Way (I got to week seven!), I stated 'Travel Writer' on my Substack profile and published my first travel writing piece. The best thing is knowing that I have put my creativity out there and knowing that that is enough. Whether any one reads it or not doesn't really matter, I am now out of the shadows.
I love this! I think I'd like to get better about the editing part - I usually write, edit quickly, and publish before I can overthink - but I think there's a balance somewhere in there lol
thank you thank you for your thoughtfulness!!!! this is amazing advice. not starting a substack yet but will be remembering this for my student newspaper articles 😁😁
So happy to hear this!! Can’t wait to read your Substack 😉
Thank you for these tips! Definitely going to bookmark this post :)
So glad it was helpful! Can’t wait to see what you write 👀
I love your last point in #3 - if nobody's reading this yet, it's free to be not as good / just for you / whatever frees you to finish and publish it. I've used this so many times to flip the script from "Why bother, barely anyone's going to read this" to "This is awesome! I can write whatever I want!"
Just read this and wow. I felt so seen. The way you broke down overthinking into something workable instead of shameful was such a relief. It’s like permission to write as a human, not a machine.
Hi! great post. Helpful. Can you write about anything and everything at first (while no audience) and later delete some earlier posts as you hone and find your niche? Would you recommend this to better streamline your publication? thanks
Yes, yes!!! My first post was not edited to be honest… but was proud of it nonetheless. Hahahaha
Thank you I will definitely use this to write from now on 🙂 about… finding my values in life, what living on autopilot feels like to me, and the tricks I learnt on the way to get out of it ! Maybe ? 😊 to be continued…
Thanks for this. After listening to you on the Internet People podcast talking about The Artist Way (I got to week seven!), I stated 'Travel Writer' on my Substack profile and published my first travel writing piece. The best thing is knowing that I have put my creativity out there and knowing that that is enough. Whether any one reads it or not doesn't really matter, I am now out of the shadows.
thank you for this! I've been hesitating starting my own substack but this might have just encouraged me.
I love this! I think I'd like to get better about the editing part - I usually write, edit quickly, and publish before I can overthink - but I think there's a balance somewhere in there lol
This is so good, MJ!
A lovely encouraging description and guide thanks
Don’t think about it too much!