"I'm actually trying to pull back a little from the place of think of writing like your shoveling rocks and dirt into a wheelbarrow sort of thing. That can me, that can take some of the like, pressure of greatness off, but it also takes a lot of the fun out of it." "Somedays are good sume days or bad," he says. 'You're going to be bad at it, and that's ok'
Casey Johnston is a journalist and editor who writes the column "Ask A Swole Woman," which now appears in her newsletter ”She's a Beast.”
”I feel more comfortable lately with a sort of beloved-local-restaurant level of success. What's nice about Substack is that we've come to this place that I hope lasts where we can have this sort of local restaurant relationship with writers, or I can have that with readers, where I don't have to be part of this big machine in order to do something that I really like.”
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