Words that were already there
You can’t do it all
I knew the end of June and the majority of July would make it difficult, if not impossible, to schedule newsletters for Drafting. You can’t do it all. With Glastonbury, aka the best weekend of my life, a trip to Berlin today for a friend’s 30th, and a 24-hour turnaround time next week before flying to Colombia, the time most certainly has not been found.
Instead, for the next few weeks, my plan will be to reshare some old pieces of writing. I have an archive spanning over two years to choose from, so it’ll be nice to re-familiarise with writing I might have otherwise forgotten about. This week you have a little something on parasocial relationships shared back in December. Enjoy!
I’m your biggest fan
A few weeks ago, I read How to leave a parasocial relationship by kate lindsay over on Embedded. A parasocial relationship is one-sided, where the other party doesn’t know anything about their ‘admirer’, shall we say? For the likes of celebrities and superstars, there’s an awareness of a general audience, reader, or listeners, but on an individual level they don’t know tha…