This is why the lack of Substack content is revealing imo. A lot of writers seem to be always writing, I've mentioned before that India Knight puts out a log of content on her Substack and clearly puts a lot of work into it. Dawn O'Porter I think pumped out a book during lockdown (obvs loads of writers did but that's a low brow example on a par with SH's content, although not having read any D O'P's stuff i may be dking her a disservice). There wasn't any increase in SH's output during lockdown (she did more IG lives tho) and she's mentioned a few times how difficult writing a book is - I can't think of another writer, for all her tales of dashing out a Vogue article on a her sunlounger in Greece or chucking together her freaky Friday monologue minutes before recording it, of another writer who makes writing sound like such a chore. I suspect she liked the idea of being a writer more than the actuality cos she just doesn't seem to do much of it, considering you don't need a commission any more to get your work out there. I suppose another possibility that's only just occurred to me is that, even though her Pool articles were pretty anodyne and uncontroversial, doing that kind of light opinion stuff on topical subjects, a mistep could lead to less ads with rusk adverse brands, even though that sort of twitter led cancellation thing seems to be largely over.
