Great workshop, Scott, and a great follow up post. You can't edit a blank page. Thanks again for your insights on how to succeed with Substack. All the best, James
Hi Scott, I loved the Substack presentation! Great reflective piece to follow up. Plus, I feel like with the title of this piece you've actually reached into my mind and plucked my thoughts straight out. I totally agree, a blank page IS a tyrannical beast. The best thing to do is scribble something down - anything. Thanks, and looking forward to reading more of your writing.
Really enjoyed your workshop yesterday, and happy to have discovered you from it! Your final point on writing your own story really clicked with me in the last two I sent out, which started as a list for a short-lived Zoom-based variety show I did at the start of the lockdown. It then turned into a digest of the week's best memes, links and pics of my cute dog. And then something more zine-y, with autobiographical chunks, and now I've got the next half-dozen issues already being pre-written by my subconscious as I think of how a billion other things I never found a home for are starting to line up for this new home I've found on Substack. Anyhoo, this is a comment on your page, I'll save the rest for Friday. Haha.
Great workshop, Scott, and a great follow up post. You can't edit a blank page. Thanks again for your insights on how to succeed with Substack. All the best, James
That was a great workshop, thank you for the insight. Loved the candidness of sharing photos of your dog
Hi Scott, I loved the Substack presentation! Great reflective piece to follow up. Plus, I feel like with the title of this piece you've actually reached into my mind and plucked my thoughts straight out. I totally agree, a blank page IS a tyrannical beast. The best thing to do is scribble something down - anything. Thanks, and looking forward to reading more of your writing.
Really enjoyed your workshop yesterday, and happy to have discovered you from it! Your final point on writing your own story really clicked with me in the last two I sent out, which started as a list for a short-lived Zoom-based variety show I did at the start of the lockdown. It then turned into a digest of the week's best memes, links and pics of my cute dog. And then something more zine-y, with autobiographical chunks, and now I've got the next half-dozen issues already being pre-written by my subconscious as I think of how a billion other things I never found a home for are starting to line up for this new home I've found on Substack. Anyhoo, this is a comment on your page, I'll save the rest for Friday. Haha.
Good point, Scott! Even after 40 years as a journalist I'm terrified by the blank page. :(