There's More to Life than Writing

And I'd like to write about it

There are a few YouTube creators I had to stop following. I couldn’t take one more beginner-centric video that was a repeat of the SAME video this SAME creator made last year. And the year before that.

I know, I know, the algorithm.

But I’ve never been able to regurgitate content. Or write about things I don’t care about because a particular keyword is trending.

I write (or make videos about) what I think will be helpful or inspirational and, more importantly, what YOU will like and want to talk about.

There are a lot of things I want to write about that don’t have anything to do with writing. I’ve been worried that would be offputting to subscribers.

But then I realized that the posts that got the most email replies were about something other than writing. For instance, my love letter to the last three years of the 20th century got me a lot of new subscribers and I had days-long email exchanges with some of you about it.

The other one was the conversation that forever changed my view of me…