Welcome to my Substack.
They promised it'd be easy.
I miss blogging. I liked the quick-and-dirty sharing of random thoughts. Blogging helped me develop a writing habit and find my voice, so I’m giving Substack a try.
Besides, I don’t want to overwhelm my Facebook feed with writing posts that are appealing only to a certain audience; I love talking about writing and books and sentences and structure and things that would lead most of my friends to click “unfollow.”
Us writers are a delightfully quirky bunch, and if I can make the world a more authentic and quirky place, than I will have done something worthwhile.
Writing transformed how I saw my inner-self, my family, my hometown. Writing took all the memories swirling in my head and turned them into something beautiful, like how this wombat is expressing something beautiful through interpretive dance:
For the five of you I signed up without notice, congratulations to be the first to read this. Feel free to be the first to unsubscribe.
To anyone here by choice, remember, in a world of capybaras, embrace your inner wombat.
This is great, Lara, looking forward to watching your Substack unfold!