One thing I'd love to read more on the fiction community is educational content. Maybe I'm just not reading the right people, but it surprises me how little do fiction writers (in general, not only on Substack) like to write about their craft.

I'm not talking about grow your Substack kind of content, there's more than enough of that, and some of it is fabulous. I'm talking more about how to write a short story, how to design a compelling character, how to do plot, settings, etc. You know, the kind of thing many of you fiction writers here at Substack are incredibly good at.

I'm a teacher at heart, and so my main publication is all about educational content, with the occasional personal essay or commentary. This is kind of the norm in the technical writing community here. There is a lot of news, yes, but most of the technical writers I know are at least to some extent educators too.

Now, I know creative writing is not the same as technical writing, and of course it's very different how you approach learning —or teaching— writing than, say, computer science.

And yes, I know and agree that there is no right way to do creative writing —at least not in the sense in which there is a right way to solve differential equations. But there are plenty of wrong ways, easy mistakes that newbies like me make all the time. If you're an experienced fiction writer here in Substack, what's stopping you from writing about your craft?