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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
Today is my birthday and I just published what is probably my most personal essay. I believe I’ve spent the last 6 years running away from my own writing success, mostly because I had internalized pervasive ideas around writing difficulty and struggle. I was chasing different online platforms hoping for a silver bullet because I did not want to embrace what might, in fact, be my natural form: writing essays. https://paragraph.com/@driftless/writing-through-denial?referrer=0x33514A171B0eC657a0237Dd388fAA4f39eE2a2E4
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
What a delightful piece, Tom. As usual, I read it as soon as I saw it in my inbox because I knew it would be outstanding. Your wife is right. Your nonfiction IS spectacular. So excited to hear that you'll be writing more essays. It's a treat to read your reflections on how things changed for your writing after joining Farcaster, and through our early convos. I do recall telling you I absolutely loved that first "creator economy" essay you posted on your Substack, but to read about the role my input played in helping you get established on Paragraph at that time is such an honor. 🥰 Thank you. 💜 💜 💜 I'm sure I'll have plenty more to say about this piece later, but this is a good start. In the meantime... the happiest of birthdays to you!! Wishing you and your family many blessings. (My birthday is in October too).
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Erik
@eriks
hbd tom!! bookmarking this and making a note to come back to it every so often. it’s your story, and at the same time it resonates deeply w me as a fellow aspiring creative i am new to reading your writing and rlly looking forward to more essays, i agree w your wife that you are incredibly talented at this form! enjoy your bday w loved ones, cheers 🍻
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ChrisCoCreated
@chriscocreated
Wonderful to read Tom and HBD! Echo's from my own life and questions, thank you for the reflection. It also made my consider for the first time Tarot as something I might try. And lastly your mention of Montaigne put me in mind of this autobiographic work in essay form that I'm enjoying at the moment. https://universalturingmachine.co.uk/
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July
@july
Happy birthday Tom A wonderful essay. As you said, I hope the essay structure finds your general direction in the journey that you've taken fruitful and also easy. To sort of envision this sense of the essay just sort of coming forth in a different places of what we do. I do think that's a good place to be, sounds like a good sign.
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
Firstly, happy birthday mate. Secondly, this is a good piece, well done. I'm going to have to check out your other fiction work too by the way, I love the poetry I've read of yours, so I'm interested in reading your short stories as well. The visibility issue resonates with me, never easy to get work seen, harder still to make any money from it. Repeated issues for me too. But hardest of all perhaps, is giving up. A writer writes, whether they likes it or not. They just simple cannot.
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Angelika Kollin
@angelikakollin
Happy Birthday!
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