Days after I published my last post on this website, I started a substack.
I didn’t post about it here. It felt too much like marketing in a way I didn’t feel like I’d earned. I’m not legitimate enough to ask you to move platforms for me. That’s a thing real writers get to do, not hobbyists like me.
I’ve been thinking about this little WordPress site a lot lately, after a six-month absence. This little site was my home on the internet for a decade. I was a sophomore in high school when I launched it. I had just moved to a new country. I had just started the school year. I took myself so seriously in a way that is charming to me now. Everything was so important. Everything was so big. I had so many important things to say.
I’ve never known how to process my thoughts without writing them down. So I did, here, for nearly ten whole years of growing up.
I am so proud of so much of my work here. Even when it is immature (technically, stylistically, and personally), a few stand out to me as some of my favorite things I’ve ever written. I’m so proud of who I’ve become in the last ten years, and I think this blog, and you, my audience, if I can call you that, are a bigger part of that that we realized.
So if you’re reading this, thank you. Thank you for liking and believing in this precocious kid as much as you have for as long as you have.
I’m still writing, just over on the Substack. I’m really proud of the work I’m doing over there, too, and the way that platform operates feels like a step toward being the kind of writer I think I still secretly would like to be one day. I even kept the title of the blog: So Um…Yeah, because I still say that in real life and I still love the kid I was when I made it up. If you feel so led, or want to keep reading my work for the next ten years of my life as a blogger on the internet, go ahead and subscribe here: https://sarahnicholson.substack.com/
It’s basically the same content you’ve had here, but with a little bit more exploration on my part, and also better, because I keep improving.
Seriously, thank you for sticking around these parts. I owe you. I’ve loved this.
I’m keeping this site up. I love the record it is of my work, and who I’ve been, and people who stalk me on Facebook can still find it. I may return to it one day. Who knows.
I mostly feel bad that its ten-year anniversary came and went and I didn’t acknowledge it. It has made me who I am.
So, Um...Yeah 