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I started my Substack two years ago. In the first month, September 2020, I posted five times. I was working on the first draft of a novel and trying to write 1000 words a day. But some days I simply could not think of anything to add to the draft. So I thought okay, I’ll just write something unrelated. Substack was my journal, a place for uncategorized thoughts. Right from the beginning I thought it needed to have a theme. It didn’t have one. Two years later, it still doesn’t have one. For a while, I thought it was going to be self-help, but that wasn’t quite right. All the advice I give is secretly advice for myself (“help-self”, see?). What’s worked for me is just to write about whatever is on my mind, and not worry too much about what category it falls under. Other things about writing on Substack: I write everything the week it’s posted, sometimes the day it’s posted. The exception is posts I start and am unable to finish, I let those sit in drafts until I can think of how to finis

Daniel Richter, Tuanus, 2000 I started my Substack two years ago. In the first month, September 2020, I posted five times. I was working on the first draft of a novel and trying to write 1000 words a day. But some days I simply could not think of anything to add to the draft. So I thought okay, I’ll just write something unrelated. Substack was my journal, a place for uncategorized thoughts. Right from the beginning I thought it needed to have a theme. It didn’t have one. Two years later, it still doesn’t have one. For a while, I thought it was going to be self-help, but that wasn’t quite…

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