Thinking out loud

So here’s some advice for getting started when you have absolutely no idea what to talk about, and you’d rather scrub your bathtub with a toothbrush than write your newsletter:

Talk to yourself while you’re doing something else.

Taking a walk, unloading the dishwasher, organizing the spices. Just noodle away in your brain or out loud. Walk yourself through it. 🗣️

Here’s a sample of what that might look like. Imagine you’re tidying up the living room while this runs through your head:

What do I have for them this week? Hm, well, I could talk about that incident at the car place when the guy looked at me like an imbecile because no, I do NOT know what a catalytic converter is, that’s why I pay you. 🙄 Or maybe that weird conversation I had with my neighbor when it seemed like they were going to go all anti-vax on me but maybe they were making a joke about RFK? That wasn’t funny? 🧐 I definitely want to mention that I’ll be at the Teapot Repair convention next weekend, so maybe it makes sense to lead with a thing about how it’s annoying when people treat you like an idiot because you don’t know things you can’t possibly be expected to know in which case I think the car guy is the place to start and then I can segue into the convention and how I’m ready to help and let them know that of course I’d never expect you to know which epoxy is appropriate for spout repair 🫖 and that’s what I’m here for, as a resource as well as a talented kintsugi practitioner…

Just let the ideas come and go, and it’s likely that something will start to emerge. 🦋

Then write it down, not worrying about whether you’re getting it right. You just need a few blocks of text which you will then sculpt into a lovely newsletter.