Love this one! But I have a different interpretation of the "I'm writing for me" advice. I think the idea of that is to write about your unique, "Spiky Point of View," a term coined by Wes Kao who wrote a whole post that I wrote about it in "Dare to Disagree: The Importance of Having a Spiky Point of View, How To Find It, and Building the Courage to Share It: https://technosapien.substack.com/p/spiky-point-of-view
In fact, I'd argue this post is a great example of a Spiky Point of View, which one of your commenters points out that these are based on your view -- that's what I love to read; fresh points of view.
I'd love it if everyone took that point of view. I would characterize that as "I'm writing from me." I try to write that way, and I write it to other people. We all have a unique perspective. What does yours offer that adds texture to the corpus?
And yes, I do, naturally, take a spiky point of view on a lot of things! 😆
Exactly what i needed to read today. I've been writing for a while, only recently sharing on Substack, and one of my biggest struggles is the "find your niche" trope. My process has been very similar, with at least 8 google docs open at all times, though I've been trying to focus a bit more on my (first?) book recently.
Thanks for sharing, confirming I'm not crazy, or at least not alone. Cheers.
I agree with all of these; reading them as you’ve written them down here is helpful. It serves as a shortcut to organizing a jumble of thoughts in my own mind about writing in general … and on this platform.
A pleasure to read, as it speaks the reality and truth to me and resonates with my years of dabbling with the craft and a career with my struggles to be in the balance and flow between my personal narratives and contrived reality and the larger unknowable, to move with grace and wonderment. Thanks and appreciation. Foregive me for the run on sentance, but it does seem kind of cool and maybe poetic, at least from my fleeting momentary perspective.
Love this one! But I have a different interpretation of the "I'm writing for me" advice. I think the idea of that is to write about your unique, "Spiky Point of View," a term coined by Wes Kao who wrote a whole post that I wrote about it in "Dare to Disagree: The Importance of Having a Spiky Point of View, How To Find It, and Building the Courage to Share It: https://technosapien.substack.com/p/spiky-point-of-view
In fact, I'd argue this post is a great example of a Spiky Point of View, which one of your commenters points out that these are based on your view -- that's what I love to read; fresh points of view.
I'd love it if everyone took that point of view. I would characterize that as "I'm writing from me." I try to write that way, and I write it to other people. We all have a unique perspective. What does yours offer that adds texture to the corpus?
And yes, I do, naturally, take a spiky point of view on a lot of things! 😆
Great to have you back!
"What does. yours offer that adds texture to the corpus?" That's an interesting way to look at it :).
Really good examples. I like how you undermined a lot of the ‘easy’ advice.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
You should retitle this article: rules that don’t work for me personally based in my personal experience.
Too long, not clickbait enough 🤣
Exactly what i needed to read today. I've been writing for a while, only recently sharing on Substack, and one of my biggest struggles is the "find your niche" trope. My process has been very similar, with at least 8 google docs open at all times, though I've been trying to focus a bit more on my (first?) book recently.
Thanks for sharing, confirming I'm not crazy, or at least not alone. Cheers.
Yeah, can't confirm crazy but I'm there with you! Glad it resonated.
I agree with all of these; reading them as you’ve written them down here is helpful. It serves as a shortcut to organizing a jumble of thoughts in my own mind about writing in general … and on this platform.
Awesome. It was therapeutic for me to do the same to capture what bugs me about much if the advice.
I’ll be re-reading it later this week for a similar reason (therapeutic).
A pleasure to read, as it speaks the reality and truth to me and resonates with my years of dabbling with the craft and a career with my struggles to be in the balance and flow between my personal narratives and contrived reality and the larger unknowable, to move with grace and wonderment. Thanks and appreciation. Foregive me for the run on sentance, but it does seem kind of cool and maybe poetic, at least from my fleeting momentary perspective.
Nice. It's funny how we end up landing in a similar space.