Changes with Annie Macmanus
Yeeeeooooooow.
You haven’t heard from me in a while. I’ve been holding it down, juggling plates and trying to use any minute of spare time to progress with my third novel.
From today, my Changes podcast is on indefinite hiatus. It’s been four years and 185 episodes. I have loved doing it. It will come back but it’s proving too much to sustain in its current format and alongside my current workload. The bottom line is that I love writing. I want to be a better writer, and to do this I need more time to write. Lads I’m joining Substack.
Substack is DEADLY. It’s a platform for writers, a place to cultivate an online community around your writing. It’s not just writing, I can voice note you, send you video or audio, and there is a group chat thing where we can all talk together.
My Substack is called Changes with Annie Macmanus.
We are still talking about change! But the conversation will be less linear, more interactive, more collaborative, more ALIVE and crucially, it will involve you.
I will be posting regular pieces on my personal experiences of change. I’m forty six years old and feel completely in flux, corporeally and psychologically. I feel both young and ancient, desirable and disgusting, I struggle with my identity as a mother and as a wife. I am constantly conflicted as an Irish person who lives abroad, away from my family. My eldest son has just started secondary school. I feel like I’m in a new phase of adulthood that I’m unprepared for. Also, I’m a footballer now! There’s so much to write and discuss.
As for us, I hope for my Substack page to be a place where we will learn and interrogate how we are changing together; be it culturally, spiritually, environmentally, ideologically, sexually… this is a place for radical honesty, a place to share and connect, to feel less alone. I want you to feel a sense of belonging there. To feel seen and heard and inspired.
Substack runs on a subscription model. You can subscribe for free and receive occasional pieces of writing, or you can be a paid subscriber and be an active member of the changes community; receive voice notes, video, audio, and take part in group discussions.
If you’re new to Substack download the app. There’s so much brilliant stuff to read and engage with on there. I hope to meet you there. xxx
Join me on Substack here: https://anniemacmanus.substack.com/p/welcome-to-changes-with-annie-macmanus?r=4hqf5n
