Me too! I write for no audience! Look at us...writing it out loud, getting older, awe-ing, wondering, wandering. And just living. Congratulations on the publication of a new book. It will feel good in your hands...and likely it will feel good in the eyes of your readers (who refuse to be 'audience,' favoring instead their one-to-one connection to you in print).
I was about to pull my hair out because I couldn't get a therapist through the VA (a joke otherwise know as US military health care for veterans) that was qualified to deal with the toxic waste in my head. Then I found you and realized the toxic shit was from outside, not inside. So I started writing until the buzzing stopped. Here's to picking locks with a pen.
This is what I love about listening to your podcast. You casually drop this profound wisdom in conversation with yourself that I've tried years to understand, then all of a sudden I get it and I laugh at the subtle spontaneity of it.
I'm getting into Hemingway because I heard someone say they only read dead authors. It's been great. I ditched the self-help category entirely. I'm only 31, so I'm only beginning to know who I am. My writings on my substack over the past 3 years show me exploring different philosophies and getting burnt out by their high ideals and contradictions. And such is the process of aging, just settling into life's ambiguity.
as tough as publishing for money has always been it's definitely at a low for mainstream. u have to be known or rich or endorsed from the start yes there's always exceptions....the small publisher stuff is newer and welcome but definitely not career money.....all that to say eff it ..share away even if no one seems to care and lastly as Madison Smartt Bell taught if one person in any arts especially writing which has such minimal feedback for most says they like your words or piece or whatever that's complete validation
Me too! I write for no audience! Look at us...writing it out loud, getting older, awe-ing, wondering, wandering. And just living. Congratulations on the publication of a new book. It will feel good in your hands...and likely it will feel good in the eyes of your readers (who refuse to be 'audience,' favoring instead their one-to-one connection to you in print).
Concerned with mortality over the “fake immortality of success”. I can definitely relate to this. Interesting stuff!
I was about to pull my hair out because I couldn't get a therapist through the VA (a joke otherwise know as US military health care for veterans) that was qualified to deal with the toxic waste in my head. Then I found you and realized the toxic shit was from outside, not inside. So I started writing until the buzzing stopped. Here's to picking locks with a pen.
This is what I love about listening to your podcast. You casually drop this profound wisdom in conversation with yourself that I've tried years to understand, then all of a sudden I get it and I laugh at the subtle spontaneity of it.
I'm getting into Hemingway because I heard someone say they only read dead authors. It's been great. I ditched the self-help category entirely. I'm only 31, so I'm only beginning to know who I am. My writings on my substack over the past 3 years show me exploring different philosophies and getting burnt out by their high ideals and contradictions. And such is the process of aging, just settling into life's ambiguity.
Love your stuff, Darby!
as tough as publishing for money has always been it's definitely at a low for mainstream. u have to be known or rich or endorsed from the start yes there's always exceptions....the small publisher stuff is newer and welcome but definitely not career money.....all that to say eff it ..share away even if no one seems to care and lastly as Madison Smartt Bell taught if one person in any arts especially writing which has such minimal feedback for most says they like your words or piece or whatever that's complete validation