406: Becoming a world builder (with Nathan Baugh)

How to Write for a Living · May 17, 2026 · 46m

Season 4, episode 6 is here!Nathan Baugh has wanted to write fantasy his whole life. He just needed a bank account crisis in Spain to finally make him do something about it. These days he has over 100k Substack subscribers, a successful ghostwriting agency, and a novel coming out in a couple of months. We talked about all of it.What we covered:- The moment in Spain when the bank account started going in the wrong direction and writing went from something Nathan loved to something he urgently needed to figure out.- Why fiction writing and newsletter writing share a flaw that almost nobody…