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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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As a new writer I’m really focused on getting my articles as valuable as possible for the reader- without much thought to how or when I’ll start monetizing. I’m not sure what’s resonating just yet as the subscribers grow, but once I believe I’m serving a niche I can confidently move forward with a subscription model. Anyone feel the same?
There needs to be a scoring system that allows substack to give each of our articles compared to our baseline of all of our articles. Curiously, watching open rates and views is not the optimal way to even tell what his resonating since there are too many variables like the time of the day, day of the week and social media performance
Open & view rates are about as objective as it gets. People like to focus on time of day & day it was sent, etc., but to bank on those factors assumes people open an email (more or less) immediately. They don't. Some do, of course, but a lot of people wait until their lunch break, their commute home, or the next day. And in my case, there are some I save until my weekend, 'cause I want to be able to really dive into them. I'm a nightmare to someone looking for trend analysis based on day sent.
A better way might be to simply see what posts are really resonating with people (regardless of when/what day they were sent). In my case, I write about music. Looking at open/view/clock rates, it is *extremely* clear what my readers want to see more of what they can live without.