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What’s stopping you from writing shitty prose on substack??? I don’t fancy myself a writer but I would love to be able to better articulate my points and I think writing consistently helps,,,,,plus It’s a fun little thing to do?
Apr 9, 2024
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On my first grade report card, my teacher said that I loved to tell stories but didn’t like writing them down. Is that not the plight of every writer?
I’ve been trying to get back into writing again, working on a monthly (possibly twice monthly) newsletter to take the place of my social media presence.
Writing something typically takes a few hours of my day, and sometimes I scrap everything I wrote, but it can be very rewarding. If nothing else, it helps serve as a tool for organizing my thoughts, which is valuable in a different way.
Jan 29, 2025
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I write lyrics/poems/prose/essays/the occasional substack/text based art/performance art and the most successful process I've found works for me is just 'hold a pen and hope that it happens'. I can't get any real ideas done on a laptop (my substacks are all drafted in bullet points by hand first). I don't write every day because I don't have the energy or time or enough that is important to say. I only write when I really get the urge in my fingertips and then I get my notebook and just open the page and get whatever out I can. Sometimes it's an idea I've been mulling over that finally comes out and others it's just nonsense sentences that eventually form something.
Basically my advice if you're struggling to get started is just whenever you think you want to do it, just hold a pen and a blank piece of paper and just do it. Maybe it'll be brilliant from the off. First lines are hard so don't worry about it if it's not, fourth lines are where it gets good. I definitely produce 70/30 shit/good writing and that's okay because who's reading it??
Also sometimes you go back a few months later and realise that what you thought was terrible was actually great all along it just needed a different context!
May 3, 2024
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It‘s the diff between me feeling like a stupid shit loser and a cutie cool winner. Even if the writing is bad the practice is where it is AT my little perfectly imperfections 💋💋💋💋💋
Jan 8, 2024
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Exactly what it sounds like
Invite the hoes over to study and crack open a couple cold ones, really takes the suicidal ideations out of doing your homework
Apr 11, 2024
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its actually super cool and sexy to wear a retainer to sleep
Apr 2, 2024
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- A tall can of Miller highlife (or a tall mango strawberry Smirnoff smash if you wanna get trashy with it)
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind on DVD
- Tweezers
Mar 28, 2024