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Why I’m Writing
A few thoughts on choosing a platform for your writing
At least once a month, I get the urge to start writing again. It’s why I took the leap and opened a Medium account a few weeks ago. I’ve since written two or three times here. As I’ve thought about my writing habit, I reflected on where I was writing and how I was writing and I moved to a decision.
Earlier today, I took the final steps to create my Substack community. I wrote the first draft of this post there. (More on that later.) Why did I take the nuclear option and move delete my old blogs and move to Substack? Why I’m also keeping Medium?
I need accountability
As a huge fan of Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies, I connect and identify with my tendency of being an obliger. According to Rubin, obligers respond to outer expectations, but don’t meet inner expectations. Publishing to a blog on no set publishing schedule with no real means of accountability doesn’t fit who I am. Writing a newsletter people expect — and even look forward to — is much more interesting to me as an obliger. A newsletter fits that, but not everything I write is what I think of as “newsletter”…
