Oh boy, I saw myself in this one Mark! As you know, I decided some time ago that would did not want to work toward any schedule and that I would publish when something was “ready.” There are times when I wonder if I’ll ever hit publish again … but then I realize that I write to figure things out and I’ll never stop doing that, so I just have to give it time. I’ve got a piece coming soon.
A big part of me deciding to break from the once-a-week metronome was just my recoiling from all the growth/profit imperatives that push that agenda. I just don’t want to engage with those.
The "growth/profit imperatives." Yes, I think those imperatives are one of the sites of tension in the Substack community, where there are lots and lots of people who follow the imperative and others, probably fewer, who don't. Those fewer follow different drummers. It's probably something that writers who might be helping to run Substack as a business ponder every day.
I know I'm not delusional enough (yet) to think I could eek out any coin from my writing, and actually I almost think of that as a partial defeat of my purposes. I bet you're in the same boat.
Trying to extract money from my Substack writing would require me to behave in ways that I would hate—to chase growth, to self promote, etc. Yeah, it’s not for me.
Oh boy, I saw myself in this one Mark! As you know, I decided some time ago that would did not want to work toward any schedule and that I would publish when something was “ready.” There are times when I wonder if I’ll ever hit publish again … but then I realize that I write to figure things out and I’ll never stop doing that, so I just have to give it time. I’ve got a piece coming soon.
A big part of me deciding to break from the once-a-week metronome was just my recoiling from all the growth/profit imperatives that push that agenda. I just don’t want to engage with those.
The "growth/profit imperatives." Yes, I think those imperatives are one of the sites of tension in the Substack community, where there are lots and lots of people who follow the imperative and others, probably fewer, who don't. Those fewer follow different drummers. It's probably something that writers who might be helping to run Substack as a business ponder every day.
I know I'm not delusional enough (yet) to think I could eek out any coin from my writing, and actually I almost think of that as a partial defeat of my purposes. I bet you're in the same boat.
Trying to extract money from my Substack writing would require me to behave in ways that I would hate—to chase growth, to self promote, etc. Yeah, it’s not for me.