I guess I should feel pretty good about being disciplined and sticking to a schedule. (Easier to do with two novels already written.) I’ve stuck to the schedule of one nonfiction post each week (Tuesdays) and two chapters each week (Fridays and Sundays) since January. I aim for 1,000 words with the essays but they always creep up to 1,50…
I guess I should feel pretty good about being disciplined and sticking to a schedule. (Easier to do with two novels already written.) I’ve stuck to the schedule of one nonfiction post each week (Tuesdays) and two chapters each week (Fridays and Sundays) since January. I aim for 1,000 words with the essays but they always creep up to 1,500+.
For promoting my work outside of Substack, I really need to reach out to flat-earth debunkers, who are mostly on YouTube, see if they can review or talk it up. That’s more outside my wheelhouse than just posting my work on Notes.
Another thing I realized quite early on is that Substack or probably any other similar platform is better suited for short fiction, or at least actual serialized fiction, with chapters or episodes tailored to that form. I’m not a short-form writer and my novels are standard novels with varying chapter lengths, some quite long. So my goals have shifted to being part of a writer community, and if possible building an audience for the day next year when I publish Ship of Fools in other forms. Not sure what form my newsletter will take after that.
I guess I should feel pretty good about being disciplined and sticking to a schedule. (Easier to do with two novels already written.) I’ve stuck to the schedule of one nonfiction post each week (Tuesdays) and two chapters each week (Fridays and Sundays) since January. I aim for 1,000 words with the essays but they always creep up to 1,500+.
For promoting my work outside of Substack, I really need to reach out to flat-earth debunkers, who are mostly on YouTube, see if they can review or talk it up. That’s more outside my wheelhouse than just posting my work on Notes.
Another thing I realized quite early on is that Substack or probably any other similar platform is better suited for short fiction, or at least actual serialized fiction, with chapters or episodes tailored to that form. I’m not a short-form writer and my novels are standard novels with varying chapter lengths, some quite long. So my goals have shifted to being part of a writer community, and if possible building an audience for the day next year when I publish Ship of Fools in other forms. Not sure what form my newsletter will take after that.