If I’m going to get anything more done on this Substack page, it’s going to involve a lot of rough drafting. That’s just the way I work, and I have to own it. Perfectionism only induces procrastination, for me. What this means for readers- especially those who subscribe- is that you’re due to get a lot of preliminary outlines, half-finished posts, posts consisting entirely of excerpts from my reference sources, etc. It’s going to look messy at the outset, particularly as history. Bear with me. As I’ve previously noted, I’m going to be doing a lot of addition and correction to entries already posted. Some of it is probably going to involve shifting my digressions from one page to another where the context is more appropriate.
I presently have a half-dozen posts that are too incomplete to present even as first drafts. I have NOT abandoned this mission.
As long as this place is disorganized, messy, fragmented, and incomplete, it’s free to look at in its entirety. If/when I ever pull it together into a semblance of coherence and begin putting out posts on a regular schedule, then I’ll consider charging money for it. I’m nowhere near being satisfied enough with my work to do that at present.
Finally, I feel strange about the whole phenomenon of “subscriptions”, at least as far as I’m able to figure them out on Substack; as far as I can tell, every time I publish a new post, it has to be sent to my subscribers, first. I’ve never voluntarily e-subscribed to a page in my life; I have enough clutter on my computer without volunteering for it. That same reticence leads me to be hesitant about cluttering up the Inboxes of my subscribers with my undercooked output. But, I’ve just told you what you’re in for…