How to Make a Personal Website in Five Increasingly Existential Steps
A surprisingly practical guide, because everyone deserves a personal website.
Calibrating Your Sharing: A Nerdy Exploration
Another mini-zine inspired by Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class. This one looks at calibration of clinical tests to explore how we might calibrate our sharing choices.
Received and Subtly Answered: Online Sharing as Liturgy
Another mini-zine inspired by Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class!
Substack Really, Really Scares Me
Many people say that writers can make more money elsewhere, or even that Substack is actually bad at paid newsletters. But I'll leave that aside because I'm actually concerned about something else. The Substack writers no one talks to for this kind of article.
My Sharing Story
A little zine I made about my previous experiences sharing my work on Substack, for Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class.
How to Survive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia by Russell Nohelty
I just finished reading How to Survive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia and I was intrigued by how he broke down audience growth. Specifically: * It's ok and very possible to pay for advertising to get newsletter leads, and you can see this as a way of
What would a different container for online writing look like?
Let's think about the inherent characteristics of the blog format, which I would also see as including most online newsletters with a website archive. These generally have: * Work that is finished, or mostly finished * Presented in a linear, time-based format (typically reverse chronological order) * A sense of
Visuals, layout, reader experience, and you
When I published my essay collection Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, I made the layout choices very intentionally to create a sense of spaciousness for the reader. Shea in the Catskills contributed artwork that further deepened the reader's spacious and reflective experience. I was asked about an
Knowing What You Really Want - Why I Left Substack
In response to a prompt in The Wayward Writer, I drew this: You can take up more space than you think. When people don't know what you're really about, that can be its own form of protection. I might say, "When you know what you&
Interview: Taking Our Desires Seriously
A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions