HeyJaredShane Baker
PhD Candidate in Literature, reading and writing about religion and ecology, creative nonfiction, and subjectivity.
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Breaking the writers’ taboo on how we all get by, Part 2 (opens the original)
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Breaking the writers’ taboo on how we all get by, Part 1 (opens the original)
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“Not every writer floated on family money—unbeknownst to me, heaps of my peers were also patching together piecemeal existences—but because of the taboo on discussing the survival math of the writing life, I too often assumed every writer had a sugar daddy somewhere. This made the already solitary nature of the nonexistent profession even lonelier, even more alienating.” — “Up in Smoke,” by Philip Connors (italics added)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/i
All Is One, But I Cannot Look: Scientifically Informed Spiritualities and the Flipside of Fascination (opens the original)
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Class, Cringe, and Content: Why Your Nervous System Rejects the First Steps to Success as a Creator (opens the original)
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This is for creators needing a shot of go-go juice, a reality check, or both, particularly if you tend to feel like you’re continually on the cusp of creating, but just to need to do X, Y, or Z first. I have to figure out the central concept of my platform before I hit publish; I just need a better camera/microphone before I hit record, yadda yadda yadda. The word “cringe” has popped up a few times in my cross-platform feed this week, and at a moment when I am struggling to get both my Substack
Enchanted by Complexity (opens the original)
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