unwanking good platforms

guys please stop writing like a youtube essayist and just write like yourself you don’t have to make a metaphor out of everything i promise. it’s getting unbearable don’t ruin these platforms with your imaginary pretences i love you

toni

It is what is odd about you that is interesting. If you work hard, you will be able to write like everyone else in your genre, but the result will never be rich as the texture of your own personality. So, don’t think too much about how you are supposed to write, how others do it, or what the conventions demand. Just try to amuse yourself.

Henrik Karlsson • Advice for a Friend Who Wants to Start a Blog

“Be yourself. Whether on Substack or anywhere else, it helps immeasurably to be who you actually are, to let yourself be seen and heard for your true self, and, in that way, to write what only you can write. What does that mean? To write what only you can write? Well, only you can answer that. It is a question to dwell on, to enter into, to sit