It is a great untruth that real art is always, only, and ever about dark things. But there's a seed of something useful and real at the core of the lie.
A re-read is the highest form of praise I think. Thank you Jai, I'm so very glad you enjoyed it and appreciate you letting me know it meant something to you.
Thanks, it's the trauma! Kidding, obviously, but I'm still learning to take compliments properly. I've been lucky enough to get paid to write before (albeit not the kind of things I wanted to write) and getting kind feedback from talented, beautiful, smart people fills my heart in a way that I don't think any amount of money ever could. So thanks again.
I feel the very same way! I used to be a music journalist and getting paid to write was a real rush. Though it’s a super tough and saturated market now. I’m also a professional copywriter but even that has been a result difficult industry lately! It’s so hard to even fathom making a living as a writer. Substack reminds me that it’s about authenticity and connection. It’s really fuelled me to write more and more!
Oh that’s really cool! I did a stint in that space really early in my career, now it seems like people are getting paid in bloody concert tickets just about. I am eternally hopeful that a backlash might be brewing, because it’s such a skill to love music and to be able to translate that passion into words and follow stories and write reviews. Lots of people claiming they can do it, not many people can truly do it well.
I think the ability to write (and think) with authenticity and connection are going to be more and more rare skills as things go on, and fortunately you appear to have both in spades.
Skye, my love. I think I would need to re-read this 100 times, print it out and annotate it and then write non-stop for 48 hours to be able to start to unravel everything that resonated for me in this.
I am so very glad you enjoyed it. Thank you. It was hard to write and pretty rough hitting 'post' because there's such a delicate tension to saying "hey, you can use what happened to you in your art ... but you don't have to, and if you try and do it too early on it might not go so well," without coming off judgemental or patronising.
Loved it.... Exquisite in every sense. Saved so I can re-visit. Thank you 💜
A re-read is the highest form of praise I think. Thank you Jai, I'm so very glad you enjoyed it and appreciate you letting me know it meant something to you.
God, this is beautiful
Thank you so, so much (love the new name by the way!) It was probably the trickiest thing I've written ever so that means a lot.
Your writing is absolutely stellar, like I would buy anything with your writing in it, I swear. You have an amazing gift!
Thanks, it's the trauma! Kidding, obviously, but I'm still learning to take compliments properly. I've been lucky enough to get paid to write before (albeit not the kind of things I wanted to write) and getting kind feedback from talented, beautiful, smart people fills my heart in a way that I don't think any amount of money ever could. So thanks again.
I feel the very same way! I used to be a music journalist and getting paid to write was a real rush. Though it’s a super tough and saturated market now. I’m also a professional copywriter but even that has been a result difficult industry lately! It’s so hard to even fathom making a living as a writer. Substack reminds me that it’s about authenticity and connection. It’s really fuelled me to write more and more!
Oh that’s really cool! I did a stint in that space really early in my career, now it seems like people are getting paid in bloody concert tickets just about. I am eternally hopeful that a backlash might be brewing, because it’s such a skill to love music and to be able to translate that passion into words and follow stories and write reviews. Lots of people claiming they can do it, not many people can truly do it well.
I think the ability to write (and think) with authenticity and connection are going to be more and more rare skills as things go on, and fortunately you appear to have both in spades.
Yes to all of this! And you have both in spades, too. That’s why we see each other so clearly!
Skye, my love. I think I would need to re-read this 100 times, print it out and annotate it and then write non-stop for 48 hours to be able to start to unravel everything that resonated for me in this.
Thank you.
I am so very glad you enjoyed it. Thank you. It was hard to write and pretty rough hitting 'post' because there's such a delicate tension to saying "hey, you can use what happened to you in your art ... but you don't have to, and if you try and do it too early on it might not go so well," without coming off judgemental or patronising.