For a writer writing about writing, this piece is very discombobulated going from Thich Nhat Hanh to F. Scott Fitzgerald and pulling in fakery, etc. etc. It’s the problem with writing every day, at least for publication. Sometimes you simply don’t have anything to say. I found that with Medium writers. They may feel they have to publish every day to keep up their readership whereas sometimes they have nothing to say. So they repeat themselves or just write garbled prose. I write essays too but only when I’ve really thought about what I want to say and believe it’s worth saying ergo I have a tiny readership. But I never put anything into print that’s not carefully thought out and truly felt. No doubt F. Scott Fitzgerald felt the same way.
I publish here twice a week and the Sunday version is intentionally a little random. But there is a theme here- finding a connection with the reader. I write every day on Medium and have had 35,000 reads in the past thirty days so something is working. And there are those 11 nationally published books (with advances) in my past so I am not a beginner. Writing and publishing a lot is not necessarily an indicator of bad quality. It just happens to be where my head is at these days! Thanks for your comment. M
Sorry to sound harsh. I wouldn’t have followed you if I didn’t think you had anything to say. What I was expressing was my general you on medium writers. Often it seems their writing is more devoted to keeping up their readership then saying anything significant. But after I wrote you, I thought about comic strips. That’s also a daily regime and you don’t expect every day to be funny. You’re lucky if one in three or one in five is actually funny still you look every day just in case….
For a writer writing about writing, this piece is very discombobulated going from Thich Nhat Hanh to F. Scott Fitzgerald and pulling in fakery, etc. etc. It’s the problem with writing every day, at least for publication. Sometimes you simply don’t have anything to say. I found that with Medium writers. They may feel they have to publish every day to keep up their readership whereas sometimes they have nothing to say. So they repeat themselves or just write garbled prose. I write essays too but only when I’ve really thought about what I want to say and believe it’s worth saying ergo I have a tiny readership. But I never put anything into print that’s not carefully thought out and truly felt. No doubt F. Scott Fitzgerald felt the same way.
I publish here twice a week and the Sunday version is intentionally a little random. But there is a theme here- finding a connection with the reader. I write every day on Medium and have had 35,000 reads in the past thirty days so something is working. And there are those 11 nationally published books (with advances) in my past so I am not a beginner. Writing and publishing a lot is not necessarily an indicator of bad quality. It just happens to be where my head is at these days! Thanks for your comment. M
Sorry to sound harsh. I wouldn’t have followed you if I didn’t think you had anything to say. What I was expressing was my general you on medium writers. Often it seems their writing is more devoted to keeping up their readership then saying anything significant. But after I wrote you, I thought about comic strips. That’s also a daily regime and you don’t expect every day to be funny. You’re lucky if one in three or one in five is actually funny still you look every day just in case….