(My friend Candace at https://dandelionseeds.substack.com/ draws sketch-essays - a few of them formerly for Longreads - so her stuff is about 75%, but I don't think she ever went fully text-pants-off. I'll let her know.)
Also - and I know this is just one case study - aged 49, after a decade of going uphill, I was ready to give up being a writer. 50 was where I decided to try again except differently, and now I'm 52 I seem to be the writer I always wanted to be, but never was. My fifties unlocked it. No idea how. But I'm in.
IT WORKED.
(My friend Candace at https://dandelionseeds.substack.com/ draws sketch-essays - a few of them formerly for Longreads - so her stuff is about 75%, but I don't think she ever went fully text-pants-off. I'll let her know.)
Also - and I know this is just one case study - aged 49, after a decade of going uphill, I was ready to give up being a writer. 50 was where I decided to try again except differently, and now I'm 52 I seem to be the writer I always wanted to be, but never was. My fifties unlocked it. No idea how. But I'm in.
It worked and it is beautiful!! In all the ways! I’m 68 and can tell you that ‘downhill’ is lovely!