This isn’t even my first attempt. There have been many, but I can’t show them to you cause they’re gone. That’s what happens to us writers, there’s no proof of all the work we’ve done. We need to overwrite and delete and replace what doesn’t work in order to conjure up something that does. I’ve tried to make something with this Substack, come back to it or maybe come into it properly for the first time. I’ve written many beginnings and right now I’m going with this one. Who knows if it’ll stick. If it doesn’t I’ll try again, and you won’t even know. I’m fine with that. This isn’t even my first attempt.
“Send one newsletter” has been at the bottom of the list of things I tell myself I’ll do someday. It’s not a priority and at this stage it’s not even a wish. But I still show up, I still write a beginning, I still delete it, I still start again. It’s not like I think one newsletter will change the course of your life but the course of my life has changed because of the smallest things, s…