What am I doing here?

Why I joined Substack, how it saved my writing career and what my life looks like now.

This time last year, I felt lost.

I couldn’t see where my writing career was going, no one wanted me to work on their flower farm and now that I was living in Somerset, I couldn’t get a job as a journalist in London.

But then I found Substack.

Or, rather: I found a way to continue doing what I’d been doing since 2008 - sharing personal essays online; growi…