Trying Something New

I'm sure I'm not the only person who has been tempted to start writing a newsletter. After all, look at all the wonderful newsletters so many of us are already following on Substack.

When I was younger—I'm talking back to my high school days—I was quite the creative writer. But as I began adulting, my work as an aviation training developer and technical editor took away much of my creativity. Creativity wasn't much appreciated when accuracy was necessary to ensure what I was writing wouldn't cause people to die due to misinterpreting something I wrote.

So now I face the question of writing in Substack. What would interest people about which I have various levels of knowledge?

Certainly I'm knowledgeable about politics, but that's only because I read a great number of wonderfully written Substacks by really knowledgeable people such as Simon Rosenberg, Robert Hubble, Joyce Vance, MeidasTouch, and Brian Tyler Cohen, to name just a few. I also follow the news closely.

I'm also very knowledgeable about Type 1 diabetes, having (mostly) successfully navigated the disease for 51+ years. I wear an insulin pump, as well as a continuous glucose monitor (CGM).

And I'm knowledgeable about developing training and technical editing. I was an instructional systems designer in my professional life.

I'm also a cat lady who has two five year old cats (not litter mates) that we adopted as kittens before the pandemic

So you tell me. How should I approach writing for substack? What topics might interest you?

Ellen