I type from my phone while I sit with my son while he falls asleep, so I decided to publish my reply in shorter bites, because the battery might die out, it would be a pity :D
I just finished reading auto-fiction book “Book of Eel” by Swedish author Patrick Svensson. I very much love auto-fiction which goes into the philosophical musings about life and death and everything mixed with musings about nature. I don’t know if it is my age or state of my mental health but these books are like healing patches to me since the Covid madness started. And now even more than then.
Your YouTube vigor excites me. Makes me dream of what I want. I published and art directed inhumane amount of books for half a year that I work full time. I feel sour, it should not be like that. I scheme the ways I can make some coins without all that crunch.
As for subscribtions - I am very much excited for all the authors and writers substacks. If my visa wasn’t a Cinderella’s pumpkin I would be supporting a list of people this way. I actually think of moving my email list to substack too. I like all the options here. I am not sure though. Just emails feel so cute and old fashioned. Also I don’t want to be cut out if substack decides to dump all the Russian creators. As mailchimp did. But I am thinking:)
Oh, I know about that book! It was a real bestseller here in Sweden, everyone was gifting it to oneanother. I started reading it, but I guess my interest in eels wasn't big enough. 😄 I've read a lot of similar books about nature and forests and birds though, so I know just what you mean. It's like it grounds you in reality...
I do think you should consider Substack. It's so simple to use, and you don't have to worry about all the extra features if you don't want to. You could just move your email list there and keep sending dispatches. 😊 Not sure how they handle Russian accounts at the moment. Worth checking out though. It has made sending emails to much easier and more fun for me, and greatly sped up the growth of my list. Thinking about making a video about it on YouTube. More people need to know about Substack. 🥳
Hello, Louise, your emails are always such a joy to me. It is funny that we also have Election Day coming, not the big one, but for local municipal representatives. For the first time I will actually vote for a person whom I know a bit via a friend. Usually my strategy was to just put my vote into someone who is as anti-current-government as possible. This time I will vote for a person who really want to make change and do good deeds for people.
Also it will be the first Election Day for my partner because he acquired Russian citizenship just a few months ago. Which is also very surreal in todays political reality.
I read your short story while I was at our cabin. And it read hit the mood of me being in a cabin, also missing nature of Finland and Sweden and the plot’s vibe of fairy presence. I am looking forward for your new fiction writings. On one hand I wanted the story to be longer but on the other its small “one sitting read” size made it very tasty. I am bad at analyzing texts, usually I just like or don’t like how I feel while I read. And I liked how I felt.
Also first and foremost, I wanted to give you words of support and cheering. Writing is a hard beast. You are doing amazing!
That's exciting to hear, about the election. I've never been interested in politics, and especially this time around, I've felt more confused than usual and like nothing I do really matters anyways. So I simply voted in accordance with my most important values. But I wish I had the time and patience to look more into local polititians. I would probably feel like my vote mattered more that way. Oh well, in another 4 years! 😂
So happy you read it! Thank you for the feedback. 😌 I've gotten that a lot, that my stories feel like they should be longer. And I think that's because most of my ideas, and the way I plot them, require more words than I'm capable of writing. And so my stories tend to feel like novels squeezed into short story length. I'm hoping my stamina and patience will soon allow me to do them better justice. 😅
I type from my phone while I sit with my son while he falls asleep, so I decided to publish my reply in shorter bites, because the battery might die out, it would be a pity :D
I just finished reading auto-fiction book “Book of Eel” by Swedish author Patrick Svensson. I very much love auto-fiction which goes into the philosophical musings about life and death and everything mixed with musings about nature. I don’t know if it is my age or state of my mental health but these books are like healing patches to me since the Covid madness started. And now even more than then.
Your YouTube vigor excites me. Makes me dream of what I want. I published and art directed inhumane amount of books for half a year that I work full time. I feel sour, it should not be like that. I scheme the ways I can make some coins without all that crunch.
As for subscribtions - I am very much excited for all the authors and writers substacks. If my visa wasn’t a Cinderella’s pumpkin I would be supporting a list of people this way. I actually think of moving my email list to substack too. I like all the options here. I am not sure though. Just emails feel so cute and old fashioned. Also I don’t want to be cut out if substack decides to dump all the Russian creators. As mailchimp did. But I am thinking:)
Cheers, Louise, thank you for amazing letter!
Oh, I know about that book! It was a real bestseller here in Sweden, everyone was gifting it to oneanother. I started reading it, but I guess my interest in eels wasn't big enough. 😄 I've read a lot of similar books about nature and forests and birds though, so I know just what you mean. It's like it grounds you in reality...
I do think you should consider Substack. It's so simple to use, and you don't have to worry about all the extra features if you don't want to. You could just move your email list there and keep sending dispatches. 😊 Not sure how they handle Russian accounts at the moment. Worth checking out though. It has made sending emails to much easier and more fun for me, and greatly sped up the growth of my list. Thinking about making a video about it on YouTube. More people need to know about Substack. 🥳
Hello, Louise, your emails are always such a joy to me. It is funny that we also have Election Day coming, not the big one, but for local municipal representatives. For the first time I will actually vote for a person whom I know a bit via a friend. Usually my strategy was to just put my vote into someone who is as anti-current-government as possible. This time I will vote for a person who really want to make change and do good deeds for people.
Also it will be the first Election Day for my partner because he acquired Russian citizenship just a few months ago. Which is also very surreal in todays political reality.
I read your short story while I was at our cabin. And it read hit the mood of me being in a cabin, also missing nature of Finland and Sweden and the plot’s vibe of fairy presence. I am looking forward for your new fiction writings. On one hand I wanted the story to be longer but on the other its small “one sitting read” size made it very tasty. I am bad at analyzing texts, usually I just like or don’t like how I feel while I read. And I liked how I felt.
Also first and foremost, I wanted to give you words of support and cheering. Writing is a hard beast. You are doing amazing!
Thank you so much. 🖤
That's exciting to hear, about the election. I've never been interested in politics, and especially this time around, I've felt more confused than usual and like nothing I do really matters anyways. So I simply voted in accordance with my most important values. But I wish I had the time and patience to look more into local polititians. I would probably feel like my vote mattered more that way. Oh well, in another 4 years! 😂
So happy you read it! Thank you for the feedback. 😌 I've gotten that a lot, that my stories feel like they should be longer. And I think that's because most of my ideas, and the way I plot them, require more words than I'm capable of writing. And so my stories tend to feel like novels squeezed into short story length. I'm hoping my stamina and patience will soon allow me to do them better justice. 😅