Welcome, welcome!
To my attempt to self-actualize
This post is free. If you enjoy it, please tap like or share with a friend.
Happy new year. Six years ago, my resolution was to write daily. I actually did it and have kept doing it (really). I’ve written flash fiction, essays, a novella, a linked story collection, and two novels. Yikes!
I’ve also managed to get a publication or two, and haven’t given up on traditional publishing, but it feels like I’m sitting on a LOT of unread material. Like definitely enough to fill a chest. Not that I think of myself as some kind of modern day Emily Dickinson, save for the benignly unhinged aspect.
Anywho, it’s a new year and I’m setting a resolution to put myself and my writing out there more. Why? Well, why not? I sorta know what will happen if I keep doing what I have been doing (a couple publications and increasingly encouraging rejections, huzzah). I’m curious to see what happens if I try something different!
Enter Substack. It reminds me of the blogging era back in 2008-2010. Back then, my friends and I started Wordpress sites and Tumblrs about topics as inane and random as which route to lunch was fastest and the disappearance of our boss’s bobblehead doll. Double yikes.
My muse: a failed restaurant
In that spirit, I’m invoking a restaurant my sister recently told me about. It had been “coming soon” in her town for months, only to finally open and close the same weekend.
The restaurant was called Nardo’s, so now “nardo” is our shorthand for anyone or anything a little bit unpredictable, erratic, or just odd.
Austin Powers is nardo. Emily Dickinson probably was. My sister and I definitely are, and I’m planning to lean into that with this newsletter. What’s the worst that could happen? I shut down within a few days? Or change my mind and start posting outfits with affiliate links? Don’t count on it unless it’s a chocolate chip cookie outfit.
See you Fridays
Look out for weeklyish inspiration and motivation on how to keep up with creative passions and projects, even when you don’t become an overnight sensation and must keep at your day job.
do they make the cookie fit in chocolate chip