SECARINTH IS CHANGING
Where I've been, and where I'm going now.
All my writer friends have substacks now. And I haven’t posted on mine in a while, but things are a bit different now.
When I joined substack, not a lot of people I knew were on it, so I wasn’t sure exactly what I’d be writing, plus I was opening a medium at the same time. Judging entirely off their designs I decided to put up one kind of writing on one platform and a different kind on the other.
Secarinth was for my short stories, and medium was for articles. I don’t know medium’s black and white view just seemed so much more serious than substack’s orange.
Where have I been?
Publishing my first poetry collection, writing and directing my first musical, Finishing my first degree (B.Eng)- I’ve been a bit busy I guess.
I’ve also been writing a poem a day, and I’ve learnt a bit more about poetry and consistency from that. If the progress in my poetry is anything to go off of, my essay & short story writing sucks simply because I’m not writing enough of it and posting it without restraint or polish.
So here I am.
Where am I going now?
No clue whatsoever. I’m going to start simultaneously publishing on substack and medium, so every article goes up twice. I’ll also just start writing, no plot or clear view- the first few would be wonky but - and again this is if the poetry thing applies - I find my ‘voice’ and maybe it gets a bit better.
The thoughts I present will sometimes be my own, sometimes a caricature, sometimes purely contrarian, sometimes just an opinion sha- I mean someone’s gotta believe that, and I believe in their personhood, I guess.
Sometimes mini essays, sometimes short stories, sometimes film or book reviews, y’know all the stuff all the writers are posting on all the substacks. Cool stuff.
Will I post weekly?
I don’t know. I have enough stuff right now to post weekly for a while, but what happens after? And what if the performance anxiety gets to me over the few I have right now? What if I spontaneously combust? You ever think of that?
Anyway, this is Secarinth, an emotion, a stance, a fight, a failure, a breath, a trust, a problem, a thought, a survival, a shout, a scream, a cry, an empty space, a heavy heart, and other stuff I guess.
