What’s Next?
Hello. I’ve been a bit lost with with the website, and I’ve been having trouble with writers block, or rather, I feel like I’m just rewriting previous posts, circling the same ideas or stories. I’ve also been quite ill on and off for about 6 months now.
Secondly, the short stories. I have a lot of them in the works, mostly short and about bitter and uncomfortable things. Thirdly, my best short stories are the ones that usually draw from my own experiences. I don’t like that, I don’t think that’s creative, and worst it makes me feel like I am using it as an excuse to make something about me instead of a story. I also don’t like that it shares the same space as my essays. I don’t like when I write about personal struggles, again, it doesn’t feel appropriate in the proximity of more detached, diagnostic content. I’ve written everything from patient case studies, to confessionals, to critiques of culture, to absurd short fiction.
Thirdly, I like this website. I like HTML, I like that readership consistently grows, I like that I’m niche but discoverable. I don’t like Substack, it feels like a circle of first years at a philosophy club trying to posture as the most enlightened one at the table. Most of it doesn’t feel honest. Don’t get me wrong, there is some great stuff there, but it feels a bit crowded with people trying to come across as intellectuals.
I’m not an intellectual, I’m just a guy who shares ideas. A guy who likes drinking too much and spends a chunk of his spare time reading and writing about ideas. There are a million people like me, probably more. “Writer” is practically synonymous with alcoholic.
So either way, might start a Substack, and post both here and there. If I do, I hope I don’t get lost among the voices.