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hi, i'm ash!
Creator of the New Travel & Design Series, 'OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES.'
Travel writer & host, cultural explorer, and architecture & interiors freak.
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The Newsletter
Every week, we're exploring global culture through the lens of the home. From floorplans to fixtures, we examine how houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world (with a side of sass, of course!)
The Podcast
The only podcast where we pass on the pyramids and poke around in the plumbing. I’m Ash, and I'm, exploring the strange, smart, and wonderful ways houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world.
The Books
A new series of OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES books designed to help you try on a new life in different places around the world—by getting to "go behind closed doors" inside local homes to discover what it's really like to live there.
“they’re actively trying to overcome what they call “the Patreon effect” where writers and creators feel like they need to give up a kidney and all sorts of special perks to paid subscribers, and instead, just let the writing itself be valuable. That the writing makes the money worth it.”
^It wasn’t until I started talking about this with you that my mind somehow jolted into a reframe about getting paid for writing simply because the writing is good.
People spend easily $150 a month on Starbucks, which is just burnt bean medicine to facilitate shitty life endurance… and yet I somehow allowed a guilt story to linger that it’s not “OK” to charge for my intellectual property in a world of repetitive sameness. (e.g. The TikTok “trend”)
This whole piece has been life-giving.
You hit on some points here that I think I’ve needed to have addressed and no other courses, marketers, etc thought of. Just write for the sake of writing. Get back to it. What do I love? What do I want to talk about? I’ve spent so much time trying to THINK too much, trying to force myself to learn “how to internet” as you say, that I feel way too much pressure and just want to say screw it. And I tell myself I HAVE to do all this gross marketing stuff that I hate so I can have the life I want–there’s so much traveling to be done, family and friends to see, I want to perform onstage again!–but then I have to set this heavy goal that I am going to do XYZ by a certain date and it never happens because I hate the actual process of what I’m doing. If I could just naturally attract eyeballs that have the same kind of interests, that would be so much more pleasant and not a grind. I do have a question, though; do you think creating a subscription platform here would discourage publishers, agencies, or unions from looking at our work in the future? I’ve heard friends who are writers say that if you self-publish, no company will want to touch you. Is that true? And I’m dabbling in some screenwriting; and that’s tricky once you get into working with union/non-union stuff. Joining a union is a long way off if it ever happens at all, but blacklisting is real and we don’t want that to happen!
Yup.
“Substack could also do with some more powerful sales tools that introduce the life-changing magic of what internet people know: that you must make strong offers to your audience, rather than limp, half-hearted two-line blurbs hidden at the bottom of an email asking bashfully for a reader to upgrade.” I believe this means I’m one of the “non-internet” people ☹️ Such sad, limp offers I make. I”m gonna work on that!