I started following everyone recommended by someone I followed and then was overwhelmed by the info so I pared back. Through the unsub option and not by emailing them. I’m a late boomer but that’s gotta be a boomer thing.
LOL it’s been young peeps too! I think if you aren’t on Substack at all, it’s pretty foreign. It’s been a running theme with emailers. I have to pare back too, and just use the site’s inbox or it’s overwhelming.
I did the same... took on board a mass recommendation.....and now I feel like being in a big department store and needing to trot through, eyes fixed avidly on the exit door, as all the 'products' are vying for my attention as 'consumer'.
Do i need these people's opinions?
It comes down to motivation to write (and to read) on Substack. (i have signed up but dont want to commit to write anything...for now, or ever?)
Just had a thought pop up about that....in African music there is 'call and response'.
Some people are callers, some are responders. That helps, I seem to be more a responder than a caller...when it comes to writing anyway...
Amy, your poem I 'get'...but can it apply so simply as a rule to apply when one is writer, and one is commenter? (Consumerism is not a healthily empowering activity. Participation is).
Conversation (if a writer on Substack wants conversation of course...i think some want to post and run...?) involves asking for clarification, responding with own view, but there is mishmash of overlapping of a giving of opinion...which might also include elements of a flavour of 'me telling you'....which might just be opining, but is taken as 'telling'?
(and i cant help but feel that in any relationship, if you have a thought about your partner, is there not a fostering of togetherness and exploration in voicing opinion re the other sometimes...otherwise if bubbling for long it might be inauthentic to remain quiet...and if cant be addressed by 'asking' ...by admitting 'something is bothering me', as way in perhaps).
So much depends on each person's degree of deep, resilient self-worth!
I feel to comment, i feel to assert my view, to give my tuppence worth, and i do because in the so doing of writing i am exploring more who i am....and so it is in a relationship with a partner...
Anyway that will do...I have mixed up writer/commenter with partner/partner...not sure if that worthy, but might stimulate further thinking...
I started following everyone recommended by someone I followed and then was overwhelmed by the info so I pared back. Through the unsub option and not by emailing them. I’m a late boomer but that’s gotta be a boomer thing.
LOL it’s been young peeps too! I think if you aren’t on Substack at all, it’s pretty foreign. It’s been a running theme with emailers. I have to pare back too, and just use the site’s inbox or it’s overwhelming.
I did the same... took on board a mass recommendation.....and now I feel like being in a big department store and needing to trot through, eyes fixed avidly on the exit door, as all the 'products' are vying for my attention as 'consumer'.
Do i need these people's opinions?
It comes down to motivation to write (and to read) on Substack. (i have signed up but dont want to commit to write anything...for now, or ever?)
Just had a thought pop up about that....in African music there is 'call and response'.
Some people are callers, some are responders. That helps, I seem to be more a responder than a caller...when it comes to writing anyway...
Amy, your poem I 'get'...but can it apply so simply as a rule to apply when one is writer, and one is commenter? (Consumerism is not a healthily empowering activity. Participation is).
Conversation (if a writer on Substack wants conversation of course...i think some want to post and run...?) involves asking for clarification, responding with own view, but there is mishmash of overlapping of a giving of opinion...which might also include elements of a flavour of 'me telling you'....which might just be opining, but is taken as 'telling'?
(and i cant help but feel that in any relationship, if you have a thought about your partner, is there not a fostering of togetherness and exploration in voicing opinion re the other sometimes...otherwise if bubbling for long it might be inauthentic to remain quiet...and if cant be addressed by 'asking' ...by admitting 'something is bothering me', as way in perhaps).
So much depends on each person's degree of deep, resilient self-worth!
I feel to comment, i feel to assert my view, to give my tuppence worth, and i do because in the so doing of writing i am exploring more who i am....and so it is in a relationship with a partner...
Anyway that will do...I have mixed up writer/commenter with partner/partner...not sure if that worthy, but might stimulate further thinking...