"How to Succeed on Substack"

“I can feel jealous of David Sedaris’s fame, I can feel like I’ll never get to that point, but I should ask myself: am I doing 15 or 20 full rewrite drafts of my essays? Am I pushing myself to search for a universal feeling, for a moment of poignancy, and for a laugh, all in the same piece? Am I doing what he did, in my own way? No, no, and no. I a

This is an essay about great writing but its message applies everywhere. “People want advice on how to succeed, but they don’t like it when that advice includes a lot of time or a lot of work.