Love this! I’ve been writing on Substack for a year now - I even went paid and then changed my mind and turned it off. I also didn’t want to adhere to a certain frequency of posts and writing for the sake of it. I write when a topic calls to me. It might not grow my subscribers as well but it aligned more with my life. (I work in publishing full time so my Substack isn’t for the money!)

I have noticed that Notes always seem to be full of ‘grow your Substack’ type posts. It makes me not want to look at that tab. And I totally get the intimidation of so much excellent writing on here!! It’s both wonderful and terrifying as a new writer. 🤯

Thanks for the honest post, it really resonated.