Today, I want to knowwho you are and what you are doing. So, share me the links to your Substack, creative projects, websites, book links, essays. Please don’t be shy and don’t hold back. I love to know who is reading this newsletter.
Hello! Followed a share from Simon K Jones of your most recent post which was a fun read, and the toddler with fangs sealed the sub. 😻 I’m using Substack to develop a writing practice, as I love having written, but am terrible at giving myself the time and space to do it for my own purposes. I’m most successful in creating sustainable rhythms with a light element of accountability, and I’ve had folks who don’t want to wait to support my writing, they want to support me, writing. So, I invite them — and you — to witness the process. 🫶🏼 https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstengriffith?r=7lr&utm_medium=ios
Hi, Elizabeth. I am a forest scientist, with a Substack due to launch next week. I was a professor at the University of Kentucky for many years and worked in Indonesia and Malaysia for a good part of that time. I was based at UPM. I am trying to get my Bahasa Melayu back to where it was. I don’t get enough practice. I’m writing my second book, about the relationships between people and trees, and some of the stories are set in Malaysia and Indonesia. I’m glad you are doing this.
Hello! My name is Sean. I'm a writer from the Bay Area, mostly spinning yarns in the Horror and Speculative genres. I'm new to the platform and only a year into my writer's journey. Excited to read your tales!
Hello! I'm Chandra, and I first saw your account on my Notes feed because Scoot replied to a note of yours, so I went over to your Substack to check it out, and 1. I like your posts 2. I saw you calling yourself a "multipassionate writer with far too many interests" and thought, "Same!"
Over on my Substack I mostly write horror & surrealist flash fiction (some of it may be described as literary fiction?), and I've also got some fantasy & sci-fi projects which I hope to post more about, accompanied by some original art and (hopefully!!) soon some music as well
Hello Elizabeth. My name is Melvin. I read your piece in social and that resonated with me. These platforms offer great opportunities as a creative outlet, but function on systems and features that can cause you to abandon your writing ideals. If you're not careful you'll find yourself writing to keep up with an ever-changing algorithm instead of pursuing your obsessions. Thank you for sharing that. I hope you'll post more pieces like those because they act as a check to remind you of why you started your journey.
As for my thing, I write fiction at the intersection of pop culture, the bizarre, and suspense. I recently started posting a webcomic in chapters on my website, and want to take my storytelling into other formats 😁
Hello there, thanks for dropping by! Sorry I missed your message somehow. :) As long as the Internet exists, I'll still be writing about the issues impacting writers as our platforms shift on us - don't you worry.
Being a movie & TV fan I'm really intrigued by your newsletter. I think I may have already subscribed to it!
Hello Elizabeth. Definitely keep up with the ever-changing platforms. It can feel overwhelming how they're constantly introducing features that you wonder what they're for:)
I write fiction also, but haven't posted any yet. I'm sure you'll see it when I do.
Hello! I write stuff (research) professionally but the really important stuff I do in my spare time: children’s stories and a nonfiction book about Russia with considerable self-biographical parts from my four years in the country I the 90s. I also write science-fiction on existential themes. I love science-fiction :-)
I write Anarchy Unfolds, a newsletter for people who want to turn this world right-side-up again. I currently live in Taiwan, and my best friend is Malaysian/Chinese, so I find a lot of your material relevant to my personal life. 我也在台灣學了中文，可是現在因為工作的關係我沒有很多時間練習lol 我們一起加油！
Hi Elizabeth, I chanced upon your Substack and thought to myself “Wow, technical writer and novelist with her own digital garden? I’ve got to reach out to ask her how she did it.”
(I also really liked your post on Chinese but not Chinese!)
Anyway, I write a newsletter on Southeast Asian artists, writers and creatives on Spice Route Stories. Would love to speak with you on it if you’re keen!
G'day, Elizabeth. I'm an Australian writer of light sci-fi and supernatural fiction. Sometimes I delve into weird fiction, the kind one might find in the Twilight Zone. You can find me at https://larrikinbooks.com, and not so much on Facebook (as part of a personal journey away from it).
Hi Elizabeth. I'm Anne and also have a Substack (because OF COURSE I do! hahaha). As a painter, writer and comics artist, I am drawn to those who write about art and art process and just why the hell we do this thing that doesn't seem to matter. But I am here to say that it does matter, not only for those of us who can't help but create from that inner well, but for the people who read and view our work. At the most bleak times in the last 7 years, a comment has knocked me out of my self pity party when it says, "I'm SO GLAD to read what you've written. It helped me get through this week/day/year" I'm over at "Finding My Inner Panda" on Substack, but also at The Panda Chronicles.
Hello there and I'm happy to meet you. I relate to what you said, and how wonderful it is that you discovered that what you wrote impacted someone in such a beautiful way?
Even if my logical brain is going: "Why are we doing this when it doesn't benefit us financially?" But perhaps our value/benefit is not counted in monetary gains only.
Our value is in giving voice to the things that need to be said. Hopefully, we do it in an artistically pleasing way or in a humorous way, or maybe people just need pandas to explain things to them so they can hear it. The characters I've created ease my mind and heart and so sharing that with whoever wants to listen, or needs to hear their message, that helps me too. I started drawing my panda comics at a time when it felt like the sky was falling, and truly, those little bears may have saved my life. It doesn't get any more useful than that.
Hello Colin, welcome to my neck of the words. I could've sworn I replied to you earlier but the comment disappeared - or maybe it's in Notes! But anyway, glad to meet a SEA "neighbour" ;)
Greetings! I write fantasy and scifi short stories, mostly. There are novellas and novels over on my SubStack too but the current project is creating a big collection of short stories in many speculative fiction genres.
I too struggle with reading, but in a different way. I have no problem reading the many SubStacks I'm subbed too, the problem is with books. I am feast or famine. I read 15 books in January and February but since then have only read 4. I hope you have found a solution to reading all the 'Stacks out there!
Quite right. I think part of it comes from the gamification of reading by having a Goodreads reading goal, which helped years ago when I didn't read but now seems constricting. I will feast and famine away!
I signed up on Substack to test it out for my newsletter on iSophism, but am pleasantly surprised to see it as a place for fiction and poetry! I'm looking forward to seeing how you work this. Just laid claim to Poetica Machina for myself.
Lots of fiction folks here on Substack :) Some are doing really exciting stuff. I'd say just go in and do it right away :P I like how there's no one way of doing things.
Hi! Just up from a short nap (raining here in seri kembangan 😊) and before that was reading a book (Goodbye, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson) that I got from our community library. A leisure sunday & hope u too have the same 😁
Hello! Followed a share from Simon K Jones of your most recent post which was a fun read, and the toddler with fangs sealed the sub. 😻 I’m using Substack to develop a writing practice, as I love having written, but am terrible at giving myself the time and space to do it for my own purposes. I’m most successful in creating sustainable rhythms with a light element of accountability, and I’ve had folks who don’t want to wait to support my writing, they want to support me, writing. So, I invite them — and you — to witness the process. 🫶🏼 https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstengriffith?r=7lr&utm_medium=ios
Hi, Elizabeth. I am a forest scientist, with a Substack due to launch next week. I was a professor at the University of Kentucky for many years and worked in Indonesia and Malaysia for a good part of that time. I was based at UPM. I am trying to get my Bahasa Melayu back to where it was. I don’t get enough practice. I’m writing my second book, about the relationships between people and trees, and some of the stories are set in Malaysia and Indonesia. I’m glad you are doing this.
Apa khabar? Saya pun dah lama tak bertutur dalam Bahasa Melayu.
Not that my Malay is super great but you can always practice with me haha. Thanks for visiting my little Substack abode and subscribing :)
Hello! My name is Sean. I'm a writer from the Bay Area, mostly spinning yarns in the Horror and Speculative genres. I'm new to the platform and only a year into my writer's journey. Excited to read your tales!
https://seanthomasmcdonnell.substack.com/
Hello! I'm Chandra, and I first saw your account on my Notes feed because Scoot replied to a note of yours, so I went over to your Substack to check it out, and 1. I like your posts 2. I saw you calling yourself a "multipassionate writer with far too many interests" and thought, "Same!"
Over on my Substack I mostly write horror & surrealist flash fiction (some of it may be described as literary fiction?), and I've also got some fantasy & sci-fi projects which I hope to post more about, accompanied by some original art and (hopefully!!) soon some music as well
Hello Elizabeth. My name is Melvin. I read your piece in social and that resonated with me. These platforms offer great opportunities as a creative outlet, but function on systems and features that can cause you to abandon your writing ideals. If you're not careful you'll find yourself writing to keep up with an ever-changing algorithm instead of pursuing your obsessions. Thank you for sharing that. I hope you'll post more pieces like those because they act as a check to remind you of why you started your journey.
As for my thing, I write fiction at the intersection of pop culture, the bizarre, and suspense. I recently started posting a webcomic in chapters on my website, and want to take my storytelling into other formats 😁
Hello there, thanks for dropping by! Sorry I missed your message somehow. :) As long as the Internet exists, I'll still be writing about the issues impacting writers as our platforms shift on us - don't you worry.
Being a movie & TV fan I'm really intrigued by your newsletter. I think I may have already subscribed to it!
Hello Elizabeth. Definitely keep up with the ever-changing platforms. It can feel overwhelming how they're constantly introducing features that you wonder what they're for:)
I write fiction also, but haven't posted any yet. I'm sure you'll see it when I do.
Hello! I write stuff (research) professionally but the really important stuff I do in my spare time: children’s stories and a nonfiction book about Russia with considerable self-biographical parts from my four years in the country I the 90s. I also write science-fiction on existential themes. I love science-fiction :-)
Hello Par, lovely to meet you here. Hope to see more of your work in the future!
I write Anarchy Unfolds, a newsletter for people who want to turn this world right-side-up again. I currently live in Taiwan, and my best friend is Malaysian/Chinese, so I find a lot of your material relevant to my personal life. 我也在台灣學了中文，可是現在因為工作的關係我沒有很多時間練習lol 我們一起加油！
https://anarchyemergencelove.substack.com/
Hi Elizabeth, I chanced upon your Substack and thought to myself “Wow, technical writer and novelist with her own digital garden? I’ve got to reach out to ask her how she did it.”
(I also really liked your post on Chinese but not Chinese!)
Anyway, I write a newsletter on Southeast Asian artists, writers and creatives on Spice Route Stories. Would love to speak with you on it if you’re keen!
Sure thing! I guess you can drop me a direct message :)
G'day, Elizabeth. I'm an Australian writer of light sci-fi and supernatural fiction. Sometimes I delve into weird fiction, the kind one might find in the Twilight Zone. You can find me at https://larrikinbooks.com, and not so much on Facebook (as part of a personal journey away from it).
Hi Elizabeth. I'm Anne and also have a Substack (because OF COURSE I do! hahaha). As a painter, writer and comics artist, I am drawn to those who write about art and art process and just why the hell we do this thing that doesn't seem to matter. But I am here to say that it does matter, not only for those of us who can't help but create from that inner well, but for the people who read and view our work. At the most bleak times in the last 7 years, a comment has knocked me out of my self pity party when it says, "I'm SO GLAD to read what you've written. It helped me get through this week/day/year" I'm over at "Finding My Inner Panda" on Substack, but also at The Panda Chronicles.
( https://yourbrainonpandas.com )
Hello there and I'm happy to meet you. I relate to what you said, and how wonderful it is that you discovered that what you wrote impacted someone in such a beautiful way?
Even if my logical brain is going: "Why are we doing this when it doesn't benefit us financially?" But perhaps our value/benefit is not counted in monetary gains only.
Our value is in giving voice to the things that need to be said. Hopefully, we do it in an artistically pleasing way or in a humorous way, or maybe people just need pandas to explain things to them so they can hear it. The characters I've created ease my mind and heart and so sharing that with whoever wants to listen, or needs to hear their message, that helps me too. I started drawing my panda comics at a time when it felt like the sky was falling, and truly, those little bears may have saved my life. It doesn't get any more useful than that.
Hi Elizabeth, I'm Colin Devonshire. English but have been in Thailand over 30 years. I write short dark tales.
Hello Colin, welcome to my neck of the words. I could've sworn I replied to you earlier but the comment disappeared - or maybe it's in Notes! But anyway, glad to meet a SEA "neighbour" ;)
Greetings! I write fantasy and scifi short stories, mostly. There are novellas and novels over on my SubStack too but the current project is creating a big collection of short stories in many speculative fiction genres.
I too struggle with reading, but in a different way. I have no problem reading the many SubStacks I'm subbed too, the problem is with books. I am feast or famine. I read 15 books in January and February but since then have only read 4. I hope you have found a solution to reading all the 'Stacks out there!
I don't think there's a right or wrong way to read books. Feast and famine away!
So far, converting my Substacks into ebooks seem to work well for me. :) It's easier to digest that way.
Quite right. I think part of it comes from the gamification of reading by having a Goodreads reading goal, which helped years ago when I didn't read but now seems constricting. I will feast and famine away!
Good to hear! Happy reading :)
I signed up on Substack to test it out for my newsletter on iSophism, but am pleasantly surprised to see it as a place for fiction and poetry! I'm looking forward to seeing how you work this. Just laid claim to Poetica Machina for myself.
Lots of fiction folks here on Substack :) Some are doing really exciting stuff. I'd say just go in and do it right away :P I like how there's no one way of doing things.
Hi! Just up from a short nap (raining here in seri kembangan 😊) and before that was reading a book (Goodbye, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson) that I got from our community library. A leisure sunday & hope u too have the same 😁
Thank you for dropping by Joannel! That sounds like a lovely Sunday. Wasn't it over too soon??
As for me, I had tea with a good friend and the perused many books at her bookstore. It was over far too soon. Have a great week ahead!