Connection feels better any day than submit-and-hope, but I do understand the need to try somewhere new occasionally, even though there's little advantage.
P.S. I have elected to a paid subscription, but Substack says you are not set up for this (yet). I don't know what that means...
How very kind and generous of you to select a paid subscription. Substack allows authors the option to monetise their substack and charge subscribers monthly, usually for the privilege of extra exclusive content. It’s entirely down to each author how they arrange it. On some pubs everything is behind a paywall with the occasional free article. Currently everyone who subscribes to All Kinds of Everything’ is a free subscriber and I intend to keep it this way for the foreseeable. I may consider a tiered paid subscriber structure in the future, with some content only available to those who pay a monthly subscription to support my work, but at the moment I’m happy to just be here and connect with people who enjoy what I’m doing. I’ll always let people know ahead of time if I ever change the structure.
The submission machine; I kind of loathe it Debbie. I have set a kind of target like you for this year, but with the aim of keeping it sane and manageable. Only two a month. I struggle with the idea of sending them out scattergun.
Meanwhile, like you I keep writing. And also like you I have TopTweetTuesday and #PoemsAbout to thank sincerely for giving me prompts to chew on and produce around two poems a week. I'm not expecting any fame at my age...
Yes, I feel like that, Glenn. I could never send more than a couple of poems a month, even if I write them. I have hundreds, nay thousands of them, but most not good enough to bother with. When my Dad died last year it made me re-assess what I wanted from the time I have left (who knows how long that is?) and one of those things was for people to read/hear what I write. Hence the subs. I don’t want fame, just to feel that my words are connecting with people, rather than being written into a black hole. Also the reason for my Substack. I enjoy these communities and am glad to have connected with good people like yourself. I can be somewhat isolated here sometimes due to my circumstances as much as location.
Connection feels better any day than submit-and-hope, but I do understand the need to try somewhere new occasionally, even though there's little advantage.
P.S. I have elected to a paid subscription, but Substack says you are not set up for this (yet). I don't know what that means...
Hi Glenn, yes, with you on that.
How very kind and generous of you to select a paid subscription. Substack allows authors the option to monetise their substack and charge subscribers monthly, usually for the privilege of extra exclusive content. It’s entirely down to each author how they arrange it. On some pubs everything is behind a paywall with the occasional free article. Currently everyone who subscribes to All Kinds of Everything’ is a free subscriber and I intend to keep it this way for the foreseeable. I may consider a tiered paid subscriber structure in the future, with some content only available to those who pay a monthly subscription to support my work, but at the moment I’m happy to just be here and connect with people who enjoy what I’m doing. I’ll always let people know ahead of time if I ever change the structure.
The submission machine; I kind of loathe it Debbie. I have set a kind of target like you for this year, but with the aim of keeping it sane and manageable. Only two a month. I struggle with the idea of sending them out scattergun.
Meanwhile, like you I keep writing. And also like you I have TopTweetTuesday and #PoemsAbout to thank sincerely for giving me prompts to chew on and produce around two poems a week. I'm not expecting any fame at my age...
Yes, I feel like that, Glenn. I could never send more than a couple of poems a month, even if I write them. I have hundreds, nay thousands of them, but most not good enough to bother with. When my Dad died last year it made me re-assess what I wanted from the time I have left (who knows how long that is?) and one of those things was for people to read/hear what I write. Hence the subs. I don’t want fame, just to feel that my words are connecting with people, rather than being written into a black hole. Also the reason for my Substack. I enjoy these communities and am glad to have connected with good people like yourself. I can be somewhat isolated here sometimes due to my circumstances as much as location.
Congratulations Debbie, 3/5 deserves respect.
Thanks, Michela. I suspect the more I submit the worse the numbers would get!
What dawn is like without us in it. Love it!
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3/5 is an excellent hit rate. Well done! Lovely poem too