Today, this isn’t a true episode, but I owe it to you to check in.
I’ve had a rather odd, busy, and stressful few weeks. I’ve thought a lot about what I am going to say to you next, though my schedule has been filled with writing, working, and building other things.
It’s been wonderful to see that even though I’ve been busy and haven’t checked in with you, the support has continued.
To those of you who ordered my original art prints from my store, purchased my book Memoir of the Modern Heroine, and upgraded to a paid subscription, I cannot thank you enough for the love and support.
Sheridan’s Store
I want to let you in on a fun little update. It’s completed on the Substack platform, but it’s not quite ready on the official What Sheridan Said platform (will send update ♡).
I have categorized the entire series’s episodes into three categories (clickable titles):
The Heroine Arc
The main plot: the career wins, the career humiliations, the poetry that started as a coping mechanism and became the whole plot. I built this version of myself in public, badly and on purpose.
B- Roll
Not every week is life-changing, even if I’d like to pretend it is to make the episode better. This is the in-between; the chaos that doesn’t always resolve into a lesson, the errands, the four-foot aliens, the version of myself where nothing is falling up or downhill—no filter, always the truth, usually with a bow on it.
Love Interest
The cast list of everyone who almost got a happy ending — the exes, the almosts, and the ones I loved out loud before I had to write them out of the script entirely.
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The production team and I (still just me and a few willing friends) have decided to make several key episodes and poems completely free. The free episodes are highlighted in the second section on the Substack platform’s main page, and will soon also be in a similar place on the WSS platform.
But for now, and for those new subscribers — welcome ♡ — these episodes and poems will remain free despite the four-week lock-in rule.
Here is the list of free poems:
Free Poems
Here is the list of episodes (I can’t figure out the formatting, ugh):
Free Episodes
Woman Compulsively Overshares, But People Somehow Still Don’t Know Anything About Her
This Is What Happens When You Don't Stay Small
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I have a lot of contradictions, predicaments, and resolutions to share with you — and they run through everything: the personal, the career, the dilemmas. Though that will need to wait until next week. But regarding “Sheridan the Great”, I am doing alright.
If you have read last week’s episode (always briefed at the beginning), my thought patterns, my radar for baloney, and my own intuition have only sharpened on what the truth, my truth, means. The year is over halfway complete, and has seen much growth, a lot of tears, and too many “oh yeahs” (accidental Minnesota pun). But it’s not close to being over; so much can happen in even just a day, or an hour.
More next week.
xo,
Sheridan Guerrette
WhatSheridanSaid.com
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