When I look back at the early days of Nude and Happy, I smile.
Back then, there were not many of us writing openly, regularly, and joyfully about nudism and naturism. I wrote because I loved nudism, because being naked makes me happy, and because I wanted to help make this way of life feel more human, more ordinary, and more accessible to people who were curious about it.
I spent years explaining. I explained what naturism is. I explained what it is not. I explained how to begin, how to go to a nude beach, how to feel less nervous, how to understand the atmosphere, how to move from fear to ease. I am proud of that work. I am grateful for it. I know it helped people.
And I am also grateful for something else: I am no longer one of the only voices doing it.
That is beautiful to me.
Over the years, many voices have joined mine. Younger voices, different voices, strong voices, fresh voices. It’s wonderful for the world of nudism and naturism. A space that once felt almost empty now feels alive. That makes me proud. It makes me happy. It also makes something else possible.
It means I no longer have to spend most of my writing life being the man explaining nudism to the world. I can remain fully committed to nudism and still choose a different way of writing from inside it.
That is exactly where I am now.
I am still a nudist
Let me say this plainly.
I love nudism.
I am 100% committed to nudism more than ever. I live nude as much as I can. I write nude. I think nude. I still believe in the quiet happiness, honesty, and freedom that nudism brings into life. I still believe in sharing the nude love.
I am still in this world with my whole heart. I am still the same man who believes that being naked can change the tone of a day, soften the body, calm the mind, and make life feel simpler and truer.
My love of nudism is exactly the same. What is changing is the writing that feels most alive in me.
I am changing direction
The truth is simple: I discovered that writing nudist fiction creates those moments of flow that are incredibly inspiring and moving.
I am full of stories where nudism fits naturally. Stories set on nudist and non nudist spaces, in conversations, tensions, friendships, mysteries, awkward moments, tender moments, and all the human situations that become different when nudism is part of life.
That energy feels real to me. More real, at least for now, than writing one more guidance post because I know how to write it. I want to follow the energy that feels alive. Right now, that energy is in fiction.
And I think that matters not only for me, but for the writing itself.
Advice can help people. Stories can stay with them. Advice can explain nudism. Stories can let people inhabit a world where nudism is simply there, woven into life, into relationships, into atmosphere, into character. That is the writing I want to do more of now.
What this means for Nude and Happy
So here is the change.
The Nude and Happy blog will continue hosting my free work. That is where I will publish public essays, reflections, personal pieces, and the kind of writing I still want everyone to be able to read freely. But less frequently, may be once or twice a month, I will see.
My Substack will become paid only. That is where the fiction will live. The serials, the stories, the deeper work, and the writing that asks for a more direct form of support.
And yes, the paid English Substack and the books in English and French (written under the pen name Stan Muir) help finance this work and my commitment to nudism and naturism. This has always been a work of love.
And a work of love still needs time, energy, and room to exist. If readers choose to support the paid fiction or buy the books, they help me keep writing, keep building, and keep giving this part of my life the place it deserves.
What is not changing
What is not changing is the heart of this.
I still love nudism.
I still believe nude life is a beautiful way to live.
I still believe nudism deserves to be written about with seriousness, warmth, humanity, and joy.
I still want Nude and Happy to feel like Nude and Happy. If anything, I want it to feel more so. More personal. More alive. More rooted in what I actually love. Less obligation. Less repetition. More truth.
Some readers may miss the old guidance-heavy rhythm, and I understand that. Those posts will not disappear. They are part of the journey and they still have value. But I also know I have reached a point where I need to write from desire, not only from usefulness.
A conversation
I wanted to tell you this directly because many of you have been with me for years.
You have read the guidance posts, the essays, the reflections, the experiments, the stories, the strange turns, and the more serious turns. So I did not want to quietly change direction and pretend nothing had shifted.
Something has shifted. My commitment to nudism is the same. My joy in being naked is the same. My affection for this world is the same. What has shifted is where my writing energy wants to go.
And I am happy about that. Grateful too. Grateful for the years behind me. Proud of what this blog has done. Excited for the stories ahead.
So if you stay with me here, thank you. If you follow me into the fiction, thank you. If you simply keep reading the free work on the blog, thank you too.
This next chapter is still deeply nudist. It is still me. It is simply me moving a little closer to the kind of writing I most want to do now.
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