What Substack Taught Me About Nimbleness, Improvisation, and the Absolute Necessity of Mistakes

Part I of II

By Jeannine Ouellette

I recently launched a Substack newsletter, Writing in the Dark, based on the premise that writing is a metaphor for life. The idea is, everything we do is related to writing because writers today must, first and foremost, keep language capable of telling the truth and continue creating even (or especially) through uncertain times.

Writing in the Dark became a Substack bestseller within weeks of launching—attracting attention from Electric Literature...