What kind of writer do you want to be?

Author? Journalist? Poet? Substacker? Blogger? Microblogger? Copywriter? Or perhaps you're not sure because the ego says one thing and the heart says another. Let's explore the options...

This morning, I was scrolling through Notes (the short-form feed on Substack) and someone had written a list of all the writing jobs they’d had before concluding that now, writing on Substack was their ‘job’.

It caught my attention, because while I’m earning a five-figure annual income from writing weekly articles and essays on Substack, I’ve never reall…