I love the message from the tweet! I wracked my brain trying to think of a quote I heard several years ago, but I couldn't remember it even with the help of Google 😭 Anyway, it was something along the lines of how when you're a kid, you wish to be an adult, and when you're an adult, you dream of retiring, and then before you know it, you're near the end of your life 😅 So I think the moral of that quote is similar in that you should treasure the present day.
You do an awesome job of expressing importance/passion in your writing. I think that was my first impression when I stumbled on your newsletter recently; that sense of what you were saying and how you were saying it mattered to you and it was refreshing. Also, I get the struggle of words mattering and how that can be paralyzing at times so I love the 100-day rough(ish) draft goal!
Which is why my main reason for commenting (and dealing with substack forcing me to register)
is to give you a hard time about that 500-word limit idea =D I mean, correct me if I'm wrong but this is like day 2 and you totally overshot it! I figure it's a perfect example of the way you communicate that importance. It's keeping the main thing, the main thing, even if it means breaking the marketing suggestions a bit. Plus, at some point in the 100 days, you may hit that "trudging through quicksand" wall so it'll all balance out.
wow thank you nikki for the kind words and the hoops you jumped through to register that really means a lot!! hahahha you're totally right that I already overshot it, and it was more meant to be a rough guideline for me to follow also so I don't get burnt out fleshing out an idea to the fullest :)
I really like your focus on "the main thing" and that's really my hope in these shorter, rawer pieces to get across one "main thing." thank you again for sharing your thoughts and would love to hear any additional feedback or reflections you have moving forward!
I love the message from the tweet! I wracked my brain trying to think of a quote I heard several years ago, but I couldn't remember it even with the help of Google 😭 Anyway, it was something along the lines of how when you're a kid, you wish to be an adult, and when you're an adult, you dream of retiring, and then before you know it, you're near the end of your life 😅 So I think the moral of that quote is similar in that you should treasure the present day.
You do an awesome job of expressing importance/passion in your writing. I think that was my first impression when I stumbled on your newsletter recently; that sense of what you were saying and how you were saying it mattered to you and it was refreshing. Also, I get the struggle of words mattering and how that can be paralyzing at times so I love the 100-day rough(ish) draft goal!
Which is why my main reason for commenting (and dealing with substack forcing me to register)
is to give you a hard time about that 500-word limit idea =D I mean, correct me if I'm wrong but this is like day 2 and you totally overshot it! I figure it's a perfect example of the way you communicate that importance. It's keeping the main thing, the main thing, even if it means breaking the marketing suggestions a bit. Plus, at some point in the 100 days, you may hit that "trudging through quicksand" wall so it'll all balance out.
wow thank you nikki for the kind words and the hoops you jumped through to register that really means a lot!! hahahha you're totally right that I already overshot it, and it was more meant to be a rough guideline for me to follow also so I don't get burnt out fleshing out an idea to the fullest :)
I really like your focus on "the main thing" and that's really my hope in these shorter, rawer pieces to get across one "main thing." thank you again for sharing your thoughts and would love to hear any additional feedback or reflections you have moving forward!