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Before good writing comes good thinking - by Rosie Spinks

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This is my last edition of the year, and in the spirit of that, I was planning on taking it easy as the days get reassuringly shorter and darker. But then, my subscriber list more than doubled over the last few days thanks to my last post, The Friendship Problem, being featured by Substack Reads. There are thousands of new subscribers here. Welcome. I’ve been writing on the internet for my entire adult life, and have had my fair share of big traffic moments. But since I quit my last proper journalism job in late 2020, I’ve kept things intentionally low-key. To be frank, my nervous system needed a break from the discourse, the comments, the opinions. So it’s been an interesting and distantly familiar emotional experience to have something I wrote unexpectedly reach so many people. It got me reflecting on what this newsletter is and what I try to do here. What Do We Do Now That We’re Here touches on issues of the climate crisis, society’s meta-crisis, personal development, self help, spi

Before good writing comes good thinking My Substack year in review Rosie Spinks Dec 15, 2023 157 23 34 Share This is my last edition of the year, and in the spirit of that, I was planning on taking it easy as the days get reassuringly shorter and darker. But then, my subscriber list more than doubled over the last few days thanks to my last post, The Friendship Problem , being featured by Substack Reads . There are thousands of new subscribers here. Welcome. I’ve been writing on the internet for my entire adult life, and have had my fair share of big traffic moments. But since I quit my last p

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