#13: Dr Roget and Experiments in Fiction
I have not been happy with my setup. The reason I went with Squarespace was the ease of use. And it certainly is easy. But what hasn't been easy is the email client. For some reason, I nor anyone else, can't access the back catalogue. And for the life of me I don't understand why Squarespace hasn't caught onto the newsletter trend. They focus on business campaigns with no capacity to run a weekly email.
Hence, my desire to find an all in one platform. Hello Ghost.
I figured I will attempt to migrate across, but before I do, I wanted to send a test email to see how well, if at all, this worked.
So, I will keep this short and link to two things that I've been up to this week.
Dr Roget or How I learnt to love his thesaurus
This week I published a new essay detailing the love I have for the humble thesaurus, only I argue it isn't humble and that Roget deserves to be named a Nobel Prize Laurette for Physiology or Medicine.
Stephen Samuel
Experimentations in fiction
I consider myself a fiction writer. I have long wanted to write non-fiction and my website is the vehicle for me to explore that side of my creativity.
I am half-way through a new fiction manuscript (40k words). I'm enjoying writing this by hand. The writing is a higher quality than when I write with a keyboard. My thoughts and fingers move as one, so the typing comes out quickly and I need to spend a lot of time untangling my thoughts. But handwritten appears formed without the need of massive rewrites.
However, I miss the quick fire writing. For the next month I will write a short short story using the local Melbourne paper for inspiration. The Age publishes an "Odd Spot" and I will be using this to inspire a story. It is only 200 - 700 words and designed to flex my creative muscles.
It has been fun to write and publish them on my site.
Stephen Samuel
Thanks for reading this. Stay tuned for information about the potential switch.
I'd love to hear your feedback and experiences on setting up newsletters.
