My focus here on Substack is building community. I don't worry too much about subscriber count. I try to post at least one encouraging note every day (sometimes several!) I engage with other writers and readers by responding to their notes. When I read a newsletter post I enjoy, I do the Substack hat trick: I like the post, repost, and leave a friendly comment.
As a matter of fact, I have seen consistent growth in my subscriber list since I started these simple community oriented practices, but …
As I am praying about displaying The Project. A parish out in Grand Blanc, MI, keeps coming up in my prayer time. It is a place I would love to visit. However, the odds are not in my favor. Praying for wisdom that something develops or that I can finally let this go.-
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Pretty much whatever the UK does .. the response of the US is to do it different, if not completely opposite ... spelling, driving on the wrong side of the road, eschewing roundabouts in favor of the four way stop, inventing its own version of perfectly acceptable games, defining the world as being the country .. ‘world series’, ‘<insert pretty much any thing here> capital of the world’, taking a perfectly lovely uk show and rewriting it as an American show .. oh and then deliver an order of magnitude more episodes (Key Point: no series set up is that good) .. shall I go on?