When I told my boyfriend I was thinking about making a Substack, he said it sounded like a dumb idea and I probably shouldn't do it.
Actually, that's not true — the first thing he said was, “what's Substack?”
I told him it was essentially a newsletter version of what blogging was like in the mid 2000s. Then he told me it sounded like a dumb idea and I probably shouldn't do it. Nobody has the attention span for anything but seconds-long videos anymore, he said. It's going to be impossible to convince any of my TikTok followers to read what are effectively just blog posts.
Honestly? He's totally right.
My own attention span is a testament to this. It’s been months since I've managed to finish a novel. My hobbies, which used to include comparative literary analysis and Criterion film viewing are now limited to doomscrolling, watching videos of round animals, and binging makeup tutorials I will never recreate. End of list.
But I'm not a great listener and a lot of my ideas are dumb, so I…
