For the last few months I’ve been trying to carve out time every week to scratch my creative itch but work has been all-encompassing, as has working on our home. Something had to give as I tried to manage my work/life balance, and it felt easier to park any new writing.
Revisiting earlier writing I published elsewhere has been an easy option, and also good as an exercise in looking back, but I honestly haven’t had a massive urge to write about anything new anyway.
When that happens I know I should force something out, no matter how shit it might be, but it just isn’t there and hence why it felt easier to give it a break. I guess my headspace has been occupied with other things and doesn’t have the capacity to multi-task.
The other things (work) came to a head a month ago and I decided that no matter how hard I try, the pressures and workloads aren’t going to change so I have to manage my expectations and learn to just switch off and say no. It also highlighted how much I needed to have other outputs other than work. Which brings me back round to this newsletter.
I plan on dusting off more writing from the archive but also I’ve found that what I want to write about has changed. While I will still write about the outdoors when I find something to write about, I also want to write about music and books, travel and culture, and maybe just short pieces that don’t mean much at all.
With that comes a small reorganisation of my Substack page. It’s going to be a journey into the unknown as I keep plugging away with my writing and also trying to get this little tinpot page to attract any new subscriptions.
Anyway, that’s it from me. Take care as always.
Paul