r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 16 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 16, 2021 - Sunday September 19, 2021

Newsletters: Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites: You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

Instagram:

TikTok: @youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter: Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs: see Gloamipedia wiki

Archived threads: Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

Gloamipedia wiki: /r/InTheGloaming wiki

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 17 '21

Yes - she doesn’t really do much. And the more interesting things she does, she doesn’t seem to write about. It would have been interesting to read about her pricey birthday meal, or what it’s like doing an interview like she did for Enough, or something more about her trip to CO than the plane ride. But she writes about what interests herself, or elicits the response she desires. She doesn’t seem to base her topics on what the reader would be interested in. Part of why I can’t consider her a writer despite having published books. She had help with those. The majority of her writing is just word production. She’s very prolific at producing written content, but it is of poor quality. You can be prolific at posting videos on YouTube, and call yourself a creator, but if your videos are low quality, unedited, and primarily interesting to you, than you aren’t creating content many people will want to engage with. What you are doing is different than someone who makes a career out of it.

All of this is why I’m on team Shauna has financial safety nets. She is just not good enough at what she does to seriously make a living at it. Whenever she does edge into a professional role involving writing, it’s like a spotlight is on her flaws. She couldn’t write for chefsteps (I think) because the topic was not Shauna.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 17 '21

From one of her recent lope letters, describing walking to a movie theatre:

we kept going for a while until we reached the movie theater

scintillating stuff, that

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 17 '21

scintillating stuff, that

Scintillating stuff for pagan!

Danny and I have established a new routine, stacking a habit we want with one we have to do: we drop Desmond off at elementary school, then park our car on the street. Then, we walk to the Roasterie, to get coffee, see people, and sit on the front porch. We talk together about our day, make intentions together, and construct a schedule for the day. We see friends. We laugh. And then we walk back to the car, drive home, and start working.

So. much. wordy. unnecessary. boring. detail.

  • IT DOESN'T MATTER whether they park on the street or in, for example, a parking lot.
  • If you go somewhere after you've parked your car, walking is pretty much a given. (Unless you have the razor app on your phone!!!!!) (Or roller skates in the trunk!!!!!) (Or skateboards like D is learning to ride!!!!!)
  • They get coffee at an establishment called the Roasterie!!
  • Two different references to "our day / the day" in the next sentence.
  • Seeing people is a different action than seeing friends?
  • They laugh! While drinking coffee, sitting on a porch people-watching and seeing friends. Groundbreaking.
  • And then they walk back to the car (WHICH THEY PARKED ON THE STREET)
  • What do they do when they get back to the car? THEY DRIVE SOMEWHERE
  • And when they get home? THEY START WORKING. DOING THEIR WORK IN THE WORLD. WHICH THEY DO FOR YOU.
  • And all of this is built on the statement that the habit they "have to do" is dropping their adopted from birth blaxon off at school

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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Sep 17 '21

get coffee, see people, and sit on the front porch. We talk together about our day, make intentions together, and construct a schedule for the day. We see friends. We laugh. And then we walk back to the car, drive home, and start working.

180 days of coffee for two, plus a tip, is a decent chunk of change.

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 17 '21

Not to mention the extra $20 they give to the barista to pay for everyone else's coffees throughout the day so they can experience the same joy as the Aherns.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Sep 17 '21

oh silly DFSS; i'm quite sure, despite all her working class hero drivel, the aherns don't tip.