Welcome back. I too have dropped off writing on Substack, and January is has been a bit of a reset month. Welcome to February - how was January so long?
Hi Jo, I hope you’re having a gentle start to the year. I have defiantly been embracing the slow start to the year and feel so much better for it. I feel like I’ve just woken up in February, it felt almost spring like yesterday.
Good to see you back Rebecca as I always enjoy your posts and I think you were one of my very first subscribers! Substack I find has been a bit swamped by people scrambling to be seen recently and a bit influencer-y and there is a temptation to compare but I have decided not to engage in any of that and just keep sending out my weekly writing to my loyal subscribers! Plus I definitely won’t be going paid either - actually I unsubscribed from a couple of people who I had been loyal to when they were just starting and then they went paid and there was a bit of lack of appreciating your early readers or something or maybe I’m a bit harsh! Anyway, please do keep sharing and all the best for 2024!
Hi Deborah! Thank you. I’m so pleased you keep writing your wonderful pieces and have managed to keep your eyes firmly on your own path, there is something wonderful about that. It’s all too easy to get caught up in what we think we ‘should’ do rather than why we started doing this in the first place. I don’t think there is anything harsh about appreciating early readers either. If I pad for every Substack I subscribed to I would be broke. Looking forward to reading more of your thoughts in 2024.
Good to read your pieces again Rebecca 😊
Welcome back. I too have dropped off writing on Substack, and January is has been a bit of a reset month. Welcome to February - how was January so long?
Hi Jo, I hope you’re having a gentle start to the year. I have defiantly been embracing the slow start to the year and feel so much better for it. I feel like I’ve just woken up in February, it felt almost spring like yesterday.
Good to see you back Rebecca as I always enjoy your posts and I think you were one of my very first subscribers! Substack I find has been a bit swamped by people scrambling to be seen recently and a bit influencer-y and there is a temptation to compare but I have decided not to engage in any of that and just keep sending out my weekly writing to my loyal subscribers! Plus I definitely won’t be going paid either - actually I unsubscribed from a couple of people who I had been loyal to when they were just starting and then they went paid and there was a bit of lack of appreciating your early readers or something or maybe I’m a bit harsh! Anyway, please do keep sharing and all the best for 2024!
Hi Deborah! Thank you. I’m so pleased you keep writing your wonderful pieces and have managed to keep your eyes firmly on your own path, there is something wonderful about that. It’s all too easy to get caught up in what we think we ‘should’ do rather than why we started doing this in the first place. I don’t think there is anything harsh about appreciating early readers either. If I pad for every Substack I subscribed to I would be broke. Looking forward to reading more of your thoughts in 2024.