things i love so far about having a blog

1. i've made enough posts now that they don't all fit on the home page. some (ok, so far just one) are nestled under "older posts." it feels so cool and satisfying to do something multiple times. 
2. i can just end a blogpost wherever i want. i can think "hmm, it would probably be good to have some sort of conclusion here that feels satisfying." and then say, "actually, i'm just going to end it there instead." and hit publish. how freeing!
3. i thought before that it was like, totally impossible for me to write anything (longer than a tweet) without an overarching Frame. when i wrote my e-book, it contained a bunch of things that i had never been able to fully articulate until i started writing it within the frame of the e-book. so i thought my next writing would also have to be under some large-scale frame (and i certainly had many ideas, but also reservations and worries that it would feel restraining to move from one contained frame to the next). but now, i've somehow found a frame (this blog) that lets me freely write whatever. 
4. i can write anything!!!!! weeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
5. i've been wanting to do this for a long time but something just kept getting in the way. namely that i didn't know what site would be good for it, all i knew was that substack wasn't it. but i'm not sure what was in my way of simply looking around and even trying to find a good site. anyway, i love that i knew wanted to do this, and now i did it, and it's as great as i thought it would be. it feels good to know myself like that. 
6. i'm actively working toward a goal of mine (to write better). 
7. i'm actively using my brain!
8. what felt good about tweeting so much was it felt like clearing an emotional and intellectual backlog. but at some point it did feel cleared, and i don't feel the urge to tweet much anymore. but i think what actually happened was i cleared the backlog of things that felt good to tweet about, not the entire backlog of things i have to express. and now that i have a new medium, i'm finding all new nooks and crannies of that backlog. feels good!