Poetic Outlaws on Substack
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Poetic Outlaws on Substack
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” - Cyril Connolly
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Poetic Outlaws on Substack
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"They subscribe to your consciousness. So many “experts” will tell you to write for your reader. I think that’s BS. I write for me. And when people enjoy it, it’s a rewarding bonus. I love connecting with my readers, but I am not altering my words for them. I am not writing the things that I think will go viral or resonate with the mainstream.”
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If you write to please others, you are selling out. You are in the process of audience capture. This way of talking, which is how the fear in me talks, is common—as if writing for an audience and writing for yourself are at odds with each other. I really used to feel like that.
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between c... See more
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between c... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Writing as Communion
Cyril Connolly said that literature is writing meant to be read twice—everything else is mere journalism.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Be courageous enough to shout your authentic creative work into the void, knowing that it won't connect with many people, but it will connect, and it will matter, to the right people.
Ungated • The Ungated Manifesto
Emilie Kormienko and added
Social media is for me to find kickass thoughtful people that get something from my writing.
It is not to participate in an info war in your head or to please a mass media audience. I’m not trying to “convert” skeptics of alternative paths either.
It is not to participate in an info war in your head or to please a mass media audience. I’m not trying to “convert” skeptics of alternative paths either.
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