## Metadata - Real Title:: [1/ Now and Then I Feel S...](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458774483569893379) - Author:: [[Eleanor Konik]] - Via:: Twitter - Publication-Date:: - ReadwiseID:: 11829383 - Last Highlighted:: 2021-11-11 - Imported: 2022-06-02 from twitter * #used for [[2021-11-16 How Obsidian Replaced Video Games & Helped Me Publish]] ## Highlights ### id248145664 > 1/ Now and then I feel self-conscious about being so active in the Obsidian discord because of periodic subtweets I see cross my dash about "productivity porn" or "tools don't matter" or whatever, > and then I realize that no, actually, I'm genuinely doing more things I love — - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458774483569893379) ### id248145665 > 2/ "people are just faffing off tweaking their systems instead of BEING PRODUCTIVE" > to which I say: > mother****er I have been wanting to learn programming for YEARS and never had a good entry point, me learning CSS and JavaScript well enough to use it IS "being productive" - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458774813976240128) ### id248145666 > 3/ also, I was able to take my newsletter from a small "once a week" posting frequency to nearly doubling the "highlights from my research" edition's length and also add an ENTIRE new Wednesday offering, which includes a story AND an entire 500-1500 word research analysis. - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458775235747004416) ### id248145667 > 4/ I basically write two entire blog posts a week now, for my newsletter The Iceberg, whereas for the LAST FIVE YEARS I've been trying to blog, I've struggled to publish even once a month. > https://t.co/OEFrx0RHh9 > Oh, and I also run an entire SEPARATE community newsletter! - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458775564777570308) ### id248145668 > 5/ okay, sure, some of that is because I'm not currently "working" because I'm on a leave of absence from my job RAISING A CHILD and I guess that gives me "more time" or something. > Except I'm a teacher! > I used to have plenty of time in the summers. I get 2 months off a year! - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458776180094640134) ### id248145669 > 6/ Incidentally this isn't a subtweet of anything in particular except maybe my own neuroses, nobody said anything lately to upset me, I'm just pushing back against "the gestalt" I sense bubbling beneath a lot of surfaces. - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458776578754859013) ### id248145670 > 7/ For the first time in my life I'm actually making money from my stories — which has been a dream of mine since childhood — & finding fans. > Some days I want to cry from how genuinely PERFECT Obsidian is for my writing process. Scrivener never worked for me. > This does. - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458776980992802822) ### id248145671 > 8/ When I see people insist that "the tool doesn't matter" and "features aren't important" ... > I know, I KNOW they don't mean "you were a failure before because you couldn't be this successful using Scrivener or whatever" but that's what it FEELS LIKE. > & it's frustrating. - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458777263651098629) ### id248145672 > 9/ I have infinite respect for the people in the #action community who sell courseware and books and such. I am a teacher. I believe in the depths of my soul they are doing good work and making the world a better place. > But it matters to me that I'm selling STORIES, not guides. - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458777597123383297) ### id248145673 > 10/ and I don't mean "stories" in the "nonfiction longform investigative journalism sense" I mean I am finally writing, and selling, fiction I am proud of, in the fantasy world I have been designing and iterating on since high school. - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458778952198201344) ### id248145674 > 11/ I made this! I went from an idea to a finished story in under a year, and instead of sitting on it and tweaking it back and forth for ten years, I gave it to paying customers to read. > https://t.co/eOF7C4PPMh > Thank you, @obsdmd > I couldn't have done this with any other tool - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458779468240195588) ### id248145675 > @readwiseio save thread - [View Tweet](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1458788648930127872)