Write to your heart's content. Go for it. People will shut you down for your opinions.....the so called friends, family....by expressing your opinions. Then ask them to change your mind.
Great article! I have enjoyed being a new subscriber and seeing how you are just a curious person who loves exploring interesting topics. You're not tribal, which is nice.
I'm starting to get serious about writing with when, how, and what I write about. The vulnerability has come in little spurts. I have no industry connections so I'm just like a lot of people, writing on here for the joy of it. I would like at some point down the road to get paid and given a chance to explore topics more in depth. But I can research right now as well. I'm just going to keep writing on what I like and hope that I can move further with it.
I hope I can be a paid subscriber sometime down the road.I enjoy your writing!
I can't subscribe (again) and I already buy you coffee Between my sub, coffee and sub on that other evil social it would buy you a single cup of Ramen (in the U.S) every day, pretty paultry. BUT keep writing and while you know I will disagree many times with you, I beg you don't stop and DON'T EVER ( yea I raised my voice😉) let anyone anywhere tell you what to write or what not to write. Write without fear because Karma is real Katherine, you will get what you deserve be patient. In the mean time,
Writing is a version of verbal diarrhea (gross, but that is the analogy). There is no one to judge except yourself when you read it a day later and think - where was my head when I wrote this? Instead of firing off emails with my opinions to family and others, I write into a Word document where I can chew it over and either delete it or leave it or send it (usually with lots of edits).
Yeah, I get that. I honestly don't know what I think about anything until I write about it. It's as if I think through my typing fingers. If nobody ever read anything I wrote, I would still have to do it.
When I was an undergraduate in journalism school, I read Rilke's "Letters To A Young Poet". In it, Rilke advised the young poet to ask himself if there was anything else he could do with his life other than write. If there is, then do that, he said. But if not, then maybe you have what it takes to be a writer. There's almost never any money in it, and it can be painful. But if you were born to write, then that's what you have to do. I didn't understand that then. Forty years later, I do.
Write to your heart's content. Go for it. People will shut you down for your opinions.....the so called friends, family....by expressing your opinions. Then ask them to change your mind.
Great article! I have enjoyed being a new subscriber and seeing how you are just a curious person who loves exploring interesting topics. You're not tribal, which is nice.
I'm starting to get serious about writing with when, how, and what I write about. The vulnerability has come in little spurts. I have no industry connections so I'm just like a lot of people, writing on here for the joy of it. I would like at some point down the road to get paid and given a chance to explore topics more in depth. But I can research right now as well. I'm just going to keep writing on what I like and hope that I can move further with it.
I hope I can be a paid subscriber sometime down the road.I enjoy your writing!
I can't subscribe (again) and I already buy you coffee Between my sub, coffee and sub on that other evil social it would buy you a single cup of Ramen (in the U.S) every day, pretty paultry. BUT keep writing and while you know I will disagree many times with you, I beg you don't stop and DON'T EVER ( yea I raised my voice😉) let anyone anywhere tell you what to write or what not to write. Write without fear because Karma is real Katherine, you will get what you deserve be patient. In the mean time,
"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
It's what I do 😁
Your support is already more than enough. It's over and beyond. Thank you so much. And I appreciate it despite the disagreements.
Writing is a version of verbal diarrhea (gross, but that is the analogy). There is no one to judge except yourself when you read it a day later and think - where was my head when I wrote this? Instead of firing off emails with my opinions to family and others, I write into a Word document where I can chew it over and either delete it or leave it or send it (usually with lots of edits).
Yeah, I get that. I honestly don't know what I think about anything until I write about it. It's as if I think through my typing fingers. If nobody ever read anything I wrote, I would still have to do it.
When I was an undergraduate in journalism school, I read Rilke's "Letters To A Young Poet". In it, Rilke advised the young poet to ask himself if there was anything else he could do with his life other than write. If there is, then do that, he said. But if not, then maybe you have what it takes to be a writer. There's almost never any money in it, and it can be painful. But if you were born to write, then that's what you have to do. I didn't understand that then. Forty years later, I do.