I wasn't being sarcastic. It's been easy to be encouraged to write about things I am credentialed in, but I want to write about things I'm not. And I hadn't be

I wasn't being sarcastic. It's been easy to be encouraged to write about things I am credentialed in, but I want to write about things I'm not. And I hadn't been getting much encouragement in real life that the writing without an appeal to authority would be taken seriously or stand on its own.