after eighteen months on Substack I burned it all down
from the ashes of my 2022 Substack 'Salted' and 2023 'This Writerly Life', welcome now to 'Writing Around The Edges'
Hello!
Hello, my friend. Luisa here. How the devil are you?
You may know me from my teaching, or my writing. Quite likely, seeing as you’re here, from my previous Substack publications, ‘Salted’ or more recently ‘This Writerly Life’. Possibly you will remember with fondness and resonance my talk of 5am bleary-eyed writing time, before the rest of the household wakes, complete with hot water bottle shoved up my jumper and a head and heart full of pooling words.
It’s lovely to see you again.
First off, I should probably address the ‘elephant in the room’.
After coming to Substack as a reader and writer in mid-2022, for the past couple of months I have plate-spun and juggled my way round two different Substack publications; ‘Salted’ and ‘This Writerly Life’. The mental struggle has been far greater than the actuality, but as a fellow creative you may know it’s all about the mindset.
Now, there were undoubtedly easier ways to go about it, but patience truly is a virtue I do not possess. On New Year’s Eve-Eve I therefore had a grand old metaphorical burning-down after journalling my wishes for even further simplicity in 2024. (I do love a good creative fire, don’t you?)
The upshot is, both those publications have been archived in the ashes of those actions and instead, here we are, with the publication I probably actually wanted to create in the first place: Writing Around The Edges. My one and only online space to now show up and, all being well, one of quiet comfort and hope for you in times to come.
Thank you for bearing with me. No more changes now, promise. ;)
So, there we are.
You’re so welcome here. Pull up a comfy chair and click this post below, to read even more about the great fire of my previous Substack publications, and my humble hopes for this new space:
And the first few posts for this new space, and your reading pleasure:
Stroll gently, my loves.
x Luisa