This episode (as usual) was so timely for me. I have been slowly increasing my work here on Substack because I love the platform, and it is scratching a lot of my creative itches. I am going all in on here at the moment, specifically looking to meaningfully grow my audience here and make this a significant part of my business income. Las…
This episode (as usual) was so timely for me. I have been slowly increasing my work here on Substack because I love the platform, and it is scratching a lot of my creative itches. I am going all in on here at the moment, specifically looking to meaningfully grow my audience here and make this a significant part of my business income. Last month I put a call out to help me write a poem about the wild, and I had 54 beautiful submissions and we created such a beautiful piece of writing together. This helped me solidify that I really want to grow my community here. On Saturday I (with so much vulnerability AND excitement) posted something I have been working on in my heart for a while - I am writing a book. Not exactly mind shattering here on Substack, but I actually want my community to help me write it. Both by signing up to paid subscriptions where they can to help me financially, but also, I want to have lots more collaborative adventures that I will publish in the book (with credit to the contributors). I created a 28 day class at the beginning of the year and only ran it once. I decided to repurpose all of this material, reweave parts of it to really tell the story of The Wild Forgotten, and am using this as the paid benefits. It is extremely generous, but it feels so authentic and aligned with what I want this place to be for me and my community. So yes, I am also running a course here (though only at $10 a month), but I have the content for a year, and it feels so gentle. "It is a publishing platform with community built in" - as Jen said, and that feels so perfect. At the moment I am doubling down on how best to serve my community here, how to write well and grow my community (and other writer and creator relationships), and...to figure out how to write this book that the muses keep screaming at me to write! And bring on the Substack Soiree - I am so looking forward to it!
Love all your intentions and reflections here Natalie- I so feel the same. It’s a holding place for a lot of creative potential and I love how you’re settling into different ways it can work for you xx
I think that's what is so exciting here, at the moment anyway, that intense sense of possibility still, and the really lovely way we can interact with each other, have actual conversations! So much shared wonder and beauty xx
This episode (as usual) was so timely for me. I have been slowly increasing my work here on Substack because I love the platform, and it is scratching a lot of my creative itches. I am going all in on here at the moment, specifically looking to meaningfully grow my audience here and make this a significant part of my business income. Last month I put a call out to help me write a poem about the wild, and I had 54 beautiful submissions and we created such a beautiful piece of writing together. This helped me solidify that I really want to grow my community here. On Saturday I (with so much vulnerability AND excitement) posted something I have been working on in my heart for a while - I am writing a book. Not exactly mind shattering here on Substack, but I actually want my community to help me write it. Both by signing up to paid subscriptions where they can to help me financially, but also, I want to have lots more collaborative adventures that I will publish in the book (with credit to the contributors). I created a 28 day class at the beginning of the year and only ran it once. I decided to repurpose all of this material, reweave parts of it to really tell the story of The Wild Forgotten, and am using this as the paid benefits. It is extremely generous, but it feels so authentic and aligned with what I want this place to be for me and my community. So yes, I am also running a course here (though only at $10 a month), but I have the content for a year, and it feels so gentle. "It is a publishing platform with community built in" - as Jen said, and that feels so perfect. At the moment I am doubling down on how best to serve my community here, how to write well and grow my community (and other writer and creator relationships), and...to figure out how to write this book that the muses keep screaming at me to write! And bring on the Substack Soiree - I am so looking forward to it!
Love all your intentions and reflections here Natalie- I so feel the same. It’s a holding place for a lot of creative potential and I love how you’re settling into different ways it can work for you xx
I think that's what is so exciting here, at the moment anyway, that intense sense of possibility still, and the really lovely way we can interact with each other, have actual conversations! So much shared wonder and beauty xx