An important update.

And potentially the last from this blog.

No, I am not deleting anything. Yet. But I have decided that it’s best for me to step away from this project for at least several months, perhaps longer, while I figure some things out.

The long and short of it is, I don’t feel like I belong here, and feeling that way is having an adverse affect on me. I’m not a disciplined enough writer to maintain a consistent publishing schedule, nor do I have the knowledge and tools to help my work reach a wide number of people on this platform. As a result, writing for Substack is no longer fulfilling for me. It’s a stressful, upsetting endeavor that ends with me throwing my work out into the wild to be perceived by nobody. I have to let go of it for my own sake, so I can enjoy the process of writing again.

Though I’ll be stepping away from online publishing, I fully intend to keep writing. I need to write for my own sake, which will hopefully help me rediscover what I liked about writing in the first place. In the future, when I actually feel secure in my ability to run a blog like this, I will either restart this Substack or build a new one. I don’t know when that will be. In the meantime, this space will remain available for viewing.

Goodbye. I’m sorry.

—Dana