So excited for you! My personal opinion is your own name is one of the best publication names on Substack. I think you also have a distinct personality that comes through in your writing and it doesn't need to be captured in any other way. Excited to hear about the changes in you work too. Congrats on the rebrand!
Thank you. I am going to try to be high volume, high quality, and experimental all at the same time for a little while. Let's see if it works out. I appreciate the kind words about my name and the rebrand.
I enjoyed that, Charlie. I relate to your analysis habit, and your admiration of the two essays is joyful to read. The advice to act yourself into the right way of thinking is sound. I'll consider those essays for my essay club (next time we're also reading a sports essay: Roger Federer as a Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace).
I'm so excited for your new chapter! It seems everything is moving for you, i hope you'll be able to settle into a nice place soon :))
> I’m confident in my writing, but my revealed behavior shows I’m less confident in my “arc as a writer,” and fear that what I want to accomplish reveals something about me.
This part resonated so much with me! Setting intentions publicly feels so much more vulnerable than talking about myself for some reason. I guess i feel less in control of that, because there's the possibility of failing? Intentions are about the future, vs stories about my life about stuff that has passed.
What an essay! Thank you so much. It is one of the most beautiful, moving and thoughtful I have read. I will come back to it all the time - every time in fact when I want to remind myself why I am a writer. The Wright Thompson piece - the line of ‘the artistry he now holds as part of himself, like a chamber of the heart’ is one I would like inscribed on my grave. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you. I'm reading this at 11:34 pm after a very long day...and your writing grabs me and makes me forget that I'm just supposed to be cleaning out my "in-box". I get sucked in. I ENJOY myself...I THINK...I want to be a writer too. Ever since I read Laura Ingles Wilder's "Little House" series (5x eventually) as a child. And I was so excited that she started LATE! Didn't start or publish until her 50's or 60's...wow! Anyway, I'm quite late for bed but very joyful that I opened your email and read this. I don't care what you call your work, I don't care if you ever publish a "novel", I'm just happy to be alive at this moment reading what you (specifically you) have written today.
So excited for you! My personal opinion is your own name is one of the best publication names on Substack. I think you also have a distinct personality that comes through in your writing and it doesn't need to be captured in any other way. Excited to hear about the changes in you work too. Congrats on the rebrand!
Thank you. I am going to try to be high volume, high quality, and experimental all at the same time for a little while. Let's see if it works out. I appreciate the kind words about my name and the rebrand.
…love the new branding Charlie…great change…appreciate the shout out too…what an era…looking forward to all you got brewing…
Thanks, man. I love that essay. I'm looking forward to this era, too!
I enjoyed that, Charlie. I relate to your analysis habit, and your admiration of the two essays is joyful to read. The advice to act yourself into the right way of thinking is sound. I'll consider those essays for my essay club (next time we're also reading a sports essay: Roger Federer as a Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace).
I'm so excited for your new chapter! It seems everything is moving for you, i hope you'll be able to settle into a nice place soon :))
> I’m confident in my writing, but my revealed behavior shows I’m less confident in my “arc as a writer,” and fear that what I want to accomplish reveals something about me.
This part resonated so much with me! Setting intentions publicly feels so much more vulnerable than talking about myself for some reason. I guess i feel less in control of that, because there's the possibility of failing? Intentions are about the future, vs stories about my life about stuff that has passed.
What an essay! Thank you so much. It is one of the most beautiful, moving and thoughtful I have read. I will come back to it all the time - every time in fact when I want to remind myself why I am a writer. The Wright Thompson piece - the line of ‘the artistry he now holds as part of himself, like a chamber of the heart’ is one I would like inscribed on my grave. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you. I'm reading this at 11:34 pm after a very long day...and your writing grabs me and makes me forget that I'm just supposed to be cleaning out my "in-box". I get sucked in. I ENJOY myself...I THINK...I want to be a writer too. Ever since I read Laura Ingles Wilder's "Little House" series (5x eventually) as a child. And I was so excited that she started LATE! Didn't start or publish until her 50's or 60's...wow! Anyway, I'm quite late for bed but very joyful that I opened your email and read this. I don't care what you call your work, I don't care if you ever publish a "novel", I'm just happy to be alive at this moment reading what you (specifically you) have written today.
Thank you.