This is helpful and encouraging. It is a struggle to balance a day job, family life, paid writing projects, a book project and the necessity of keeping up a social media presence. If one is committed to writing as art (in books) it is even harder. The daily practices that are rewarded with followers and eyeballs are not great for the quiet mind needed to produce great writing. IMHO. Or maybe I am just too used to having lived half my life before the internet exploded. Laugh. In any event, again this piece was very helpful and gave me ideas.
As someone who uses the written word to tell stories, communicate with policymakers and my membership - I appreciate your perspective and can really relate to your noodling on frequency. I enjoy your voice that comes through, David!
This is helpful and encouraging. It is a struggle to balance a day job, family life, paid writing projects, a book project and the necessity of keeping up a social media presence. If one is committed to writing as art (in books) it is even harder. The daily practices that are rewarded with followers and eyeballs are not great for the quiet mind needed to produce great writing. IMHO. Or maybe I am just too used to having lived half my life before the internet exploded. Laugh. In any event, again this piece was very helpful and gave me ideas.
As someone who uses the written word to tell stories, communicate with policymakers and my membership - I appreciate your perspective and can really relate to your noodling on frequency. I enjoy your voice that comes through, David!
Thanks David, for sharing your Substack lessons. I am a new Stacker, former journalist and trying to figure it out.