[OPEN THREAD] How are you, really?

After getting such a visceral reaction to yesterday’s post, I thought I would try something I saw on another Substack and start a thread to ask how you’re doing really.

Two options:

1 - If you don’t want to say anything, or identify yourself, then you can reply with this nifty poll.

2 - If you’re feeling very brave, then reply below and tell us about it.

Right now, I’m a 1.5. I’ve been going through a lot of health stuff lately, and we’re about to launch a big new scary thing that is giving me insomnia. For me, that means getting up at 2 or 3 in the morning with a pulse over 100 and not being able to fall back asleep.

If you haven’t had a chance to read yesterday’s newsletter, then you can read all about neutral thinking here. If you want to dive back a little further, I wrote about how to go paid on Substack without selling your soul earlier this week.

Here are some of my favorite Substacks from the week that you might like to read this weekend.

• Winning at the Beauty game by

• Resting like a Writer by

• The Wages of Overwork by

• Psychology of Shared Spaces by

• Why this Autistic editor and writer doesn't have more readers by

• My husband taught me to disappoint people by

I hope you have a nice weekend. If you have any plans, I’d love to hear about them. I’ll be at LA Festival of Books, hanging out at booth 194 with the AHHH! Real Indie Authors. Hope to see you there.