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Wow this is one of the things I've been wrestling with a lot lately. What is the point of my writing is no one else reads it/wants to read it? I keep trying to remind myself of when I used to write in high school. I wrote because and when I felt like it never intending anyone else to read what I'd written. And that was enough. There was less pressure. I wrote want I wanted without constraint or fear of what others might think. Yet now I constantly hear the questions - what if someone reads this? Is it too revealing? Is it in the right style for them to want to publish? Have I hit the mark? So I'm trying to focus now on just writing. If nothing else then for practice. But either way I need to keep reminding myself that the first person I'm often writing for is myself.

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I do both writing for money and for love now. Sometimes there are things I want to write about that don't easily shoehorn into my newsletter. Those I usually just write about on Facebook, which is where I did all my writing free for years. But I also write for money over at my newsletter, because, to be perfectly honest, I'm not very good at having a boss anymore. It could be argued that I now have 42 bosses, but so far I have avoided feeling obligated to make them happy with what I write about, only that I write at all.

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Can you send me an email so we can "talk" offline?

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I've been putting undue pressure on myself to stick to a self-imposed deadline that I set up when I started my newsletter in May 2021. I don't have paid subscribers, so there is NOT that pressure. I don't have subscribers complaining that the Happy Friday Links newsletter didn't go out at 10 a.m. on Friday like it did for many weeks. I have a little voice in the back of my head telling me all of this and I finally told that voice to "shut up" in yesterdays one day late links email. Now I'm going to do my best to post it on Friday and if I don't, it will just be a day late and I'm fine with that. :)

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