I wish you all the success with this. I'm interested in personal experience, rather than formality, so I hope you continue with your creative writings. This said, as a consumer who occasionally does go for a paid subscription, I only pay when I'm getting something I can't get elsewhere-- for me that's interaction in the comments section, and this includes the chance to interact with both authors and other commenters. I imagine my own free substack someday being full of lively back and forth conversation, and with me keeping up with regular posts, but I realized early on up here I would have to work for this, getting followers by following others making comments thoughtful enough that others feel inspired (or compelled) to do the same for me. I have a few of these right now, but honestly I've not been too aggressive. I've been dwelling in the unpaid world, I don't need the money or notoriety of having paid subscribers. I just want to feel the human connection, which is something that's getting more rare these days. Good luck again, and I'll see you soon.
Thanks Andrea - Perfectly understandable. I won't be writing a personal essay for quite a while. But if you ever decide to come back, happy to have you here 😊
I wish you all the success with this. I'm interested in personal experience, rather than formality, so I hope you continue with your creative writings. This said, as a consumer who occasionally does go for a paid subscription, I only pay when I'm getting something I can't get elsewhere-- for me that's interaction in the comments section, and this includes the chance to interact with both authors and other commenters. I imagine my own free substack someday being full of lively back and forth conversation, and with me keeping up with regular posts, but I realized early on up here I would have to work for this, getting followers by following others making comments thoughtful enough that others feel inspired (or compelled) to do the same for me. I have a few of these right now, but honestly I've not been too aggressive. I've been dwelling in the unpaid world, I don't need the money or notoriety of having paid subscribers. I just want to feel the human connection, which is something that's getting more rare these days. Good luck again, and I'll see you soon.
Thanks Andrea - Perfectly understandable. I won't be writing a personal essay for quite a while. But if you ever decide to come back, happy to have you here 😊