The Extroverted Writer: A Guide To Moving Forward
We're moving forward into the future, and a change of name is required.
What’s up everyone,
I hope this post finds you well. So far, we’ve covered a lot of things in this publication. Hell, I’ve been publishing for less than a month. As you see, the name of the publication, and the about, are different.
I wrote the about section as I tried to determine what I wanted to do with this. I was writing title and post ideas down. Then something hit me, “The Extroverted Writer” It came to me in a flash of insanity. It tracks with how a majority of my ideas fit.
So I want to share with you what the “Extroverted Writer” will contain. It will also share a bit of what I hope the publishing schedule will be. I’m aiming to do this not to give myself more stuff on my plate. More so, because I want to lean hard into the idea of using my words to promote myself. So we’re going to break this bad boy down. Let’s go!
Why the Extroverted Writer
First, the oxymoron in that title alone is enough. Writers by nature aren’t people, people. That’s why a lot of us enjoy the comfort of the words that we write. Our whole goal is to build a world that we can feel safe in, that we can enjoy going into. We share that world hoping people might join us in this world of make believe, but we’re usually at the start, doing this for us, the writer.
So if that’s the case, why did I name this publication the Extroverted Writer? Well, I’m pretty well an extrovert by nature. Let me tell you a story. A few years ago, we went to a concert. It was me and my wife. We were standing in line waiting for the gates to open. The guy in front of us turned and started talking to me.
I spent the next two hours talking to this complete stranger. We shared stories about the band we were going to see. We talked about how eager we were to see the band. There was a conversation about life and how we’d ended up where we were. When we got to the door, I went right; the guy went left. My wife turned and looked at me and said, “Who the hell was that?”
I shook my head and told her I didn’t know. The look on her face was priceless.
My co-worker at GameStop also put something in my head that I never thought of. He mentioned he thought I was a people person. While I’m outgoing, and well, extroverted, I never called myself a people person. Then I realized I am in fact more of a people person than I realized.
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Let’s fast forward to why I changed the name of this publication. I was sitting down and coming up with topics of things that I can talk about here. I started writing out topics on different subjects which have various points. I’ll talk more about that in a bit, but for now I want to lie out the exact reason that I changed the name.
As I wrote out titles, subjects, and post ideas, I knew I was going to need a change. I did a lot of reading on various subtacks and one thing it mentioned was about choosing topics and subjects. It basically said that you need three subjects you’re willing to write about. The subjects I came up with were writing, the creative process, and how writing has affected and influenced my life.
There is a fourth category that I’m calling General. Pretty well, anything else is going to go back into that category. That will cover things like Pro Wrestling, General Life, things like that. I’m constantly looking into various topics and things that I want to write about.
The fact is that I’m going to write about what I want to write about. There’s no question there. The premise of this blog/ newsletter is that I want to share my thoughts and feelings on various topics. This is a MASSIVE contrast compared to what I tried to do with the last time I intended to do a blog.
The last time I went into this, I tried to keep everything PG and tried to shy away from being who I was. This time, not a fuckin chance. My logic here is that I’m an extrovert, I’m a writer, and I like to have opinions. I’m going to combine them to create “The Extroverted Writer”
What To Expect From “The Extroverted Writer”
So this is the part of this post where I try to lie out some ideas that I intend to follow as we publish this newsletter. The first thing I’m going to attempt to do is publish twice a week. The first of these posts will probably be a non-fiction piece. Think about pieces like the one you’re currently reading.
If I write fiction post weekly, it will be things like poetry, maybe some shorts in pieces, or chapters in my novels or pieces of random micro fiction that I might put together. The idea here is I want to share not only my fiction, but pieces of myself with you guys. This newsletter will give you a glimpse into who and what I’m about.
The fact is that writing is a part of me at a level that I’ll never fully be able to express. I know that, though I forgot it for a long time. With each word that I write. The novels, this publication, all of it reminds me how much I love words and the use of them.
Hell, one thing that I’ve learned is that I have a better chance of explaining my feelings and my thoughts using words in type versus verbally. It’s fuckin bizarre, but it’s true. I’m only hoping that it doesn’t fuck with my relationship with my kid.
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One last note on how I intend to publish and utilize this newsletter. Paid subscribers are ALREADY enabled here. I want this little corner of the “word mall” to be enjoyable and I’d love your support, but I understand it needs to be earned.
That said, eventually I will post stories, poetry, and occasionally fiction behind the subscriber tier. I have a rough idea when I want to do that, but we’re a way off from that I’ll be honest. That said, I’m laying this out there right now because I don’t want people to think I sprung it out of nowhere. My goal, utilizing this newsletter, is to eventually make a little extra revenue on top of my books. I also want to use this as a vehicle to promote myself.
I have a lot of things planned for this newsletter. We’re starting at the bottom and we’re going to have to build together. I know that ya’ll are here to help me and I hope you enjoy what I’m aiming to share.
Until next time once again, I’ll say thank you, mainly because I don’t have an actual sign off for a blog yet.
K.L. Robinson