Strongly agree with all of this. Writing fiction on here has changed everything for me: as you say, even a small number of subscribers (around 70 in my case) gets rid of that feeling of shouting into the void that is the day-to-day experience of a writer working on a book for a traditional publisher. Coming out of a four-year period of c…
Strongly agree with all of this. Writing fiction on here has changed everything for me: as you say, even a small number of subscribers (around 70 in my case) gets rid of that feeling of shouting into the void that is the day-to-day experience of a writer working on a book for a traditional publisher. Coming out of a four-year period of chronic illness, I thought starting a substack would be a way to ease myself back into regular writing. It has done that, but it’s done so much more as well.
Strongly agree with all of this. Writing fiction on here has changed everything for me: as you say, even a small number of subscribers (around 70 in my case) gets rid of that feeling of shouting into the void that is the day-to-day experience of a writer working on a book for a traditional publisher. Coming out of a four-year period of chronic illness, I thought starting a substack would be a way to ease myself back into regular writing. It has done that, but it’s done so much more as well.
(https://pulpstack.substack.com, if anyone’s interested in some juicy genre fiction…)