Hi Walter - Thank you for all the helpful information in response to my questions. Of course, they are now prompts for my next questions - to follow at another time. As you have likely inferred, I tend to the nuts and bolts side of life rather than the creative.
I would love to attend your discussion today but we have house cleaners arriving between 12 N and 2 PM MST today and every 3 weeks on Fridays. Any possibility that in the future you would calendar those discussions in advance? My life tends to be structured around Google Calendar and Google Search (my “other brain” which prompts me to remember words and concepts I blank out on). Advance calendaring would help me to schedule future “one-off” appointments around your sessions.
As for the cost of MS Office products, I forgot: My son provides my 2 college -age grandchildren with a subscription to online MS Office business version which subscription has 4 “seats”. The 3rd seat is mine at no cost to me. Son & his wife subscribe to MS Office through their business (higher security). I can work with MS Office both on-and offline.
I am delighted to have “discovered” you and am about to turn my subscription to Paid. Thankyou!
Thankyou! MWFSat,Sun works. That oddball exception, (Fridays, every 3 weeks, beginning 12/6/2024) is precious bc we finally have a worker assigned by the service who actually knows how to and will clean properly and thoroughly. Sat or Sun might attract an audience that is still on someone’s M-F 9-5 payroll. Or after dinner (7pm PST?) any evening.
Hello Walter - I like your writing so signed up for the year. Question for the writing Q&A: Do you think Substack can be used for serial narrative fiction, like Dickens and Trollope did with magazines? If people find it in the middle, would they go back to the beginning? Or do we need to have them access the first chapter first and go from there? (I say "access" because Substack posts include video, audio, text and images - potentially reaching non-readers.) Thanks!
I'm experimenting with this. I've decided to do an audio version of my book 'Beyond Birkie Fever.' It's nice because I want to have daily content. However, I don't think it's a direct line from book to reader. Instead, you have to simultaneously develop some complimentary content to generate interest in the book. For example, I'll be releasing a podcast soon where I discuss some of the memories that were churned up when I read my last chapter. The Podcast component of Substack seems to be really powerful, though I've only been doing it for about 2 months. The short answer is yes, I think you can serialize fiction on Substack, but I'm still in the process of figuring out the best way to do it. Thanks for the awesome question and for your generous sponsorship!
Yeah, I've seen chapter 14 of BBF come by and haven't jumped in. I'd be 13 chapters behind! And by the time I caught up, 13 more might have come along and I'd still be behind!
To get around that, I'm thinking of sending paying readers to a separate site where the content is dripped one day at a time, like an online course. No bingeing, or looking ahead in the book. They'd have to wait for the next installment. I hope they'd look forward to it.
If I published it on Substack they could go back to the beginning, but as I said, it's a daunting thought to have all that catching-up to do. Better, psychologically, to give them the first chapter and deliver it from there. That's why I may need to go beyond Substack to create that reader experience.
They kind of stand alone, but I've toyed with that problem. It's all an experiment. I know that quite a few Substackers have released serialized novels. I'll keep trying to figure out a better way to do it :)
Hi Walter - Thank you for all the helpful information in response to my questions. Of course, they are now prompts for my next questions - to follow at another time. As you have likely inferred, I tend to the nuts and bolts side of life rather than the creative.
I would love to attend your discussion today but we have house cleaners arriving between 12 N and 2 PM MST today and every 3 weeks on Fridays. Any possibility that in the future you would calendar those discussions in advance? My life tends to be structured around Google Calendar and Google Search (my “other brain” which prompts me to remember words and concepts I blank out on). Advance calendaring would help me to schedule future “one-off” appointments around your sessions.
As for the cost of MS Office products, I forgot: My son provides my 2 college -age grandchildren with a subscription to online MS Office business version which subscription has 4 “seats”. The 3rd seat is mine at no cost to me. Son & his wife subscribe to MS Office through their business (higher security). I can work with MS Office both on-and offline.
I am delighted to have “discovered” you and am about to turn my subscription to Paid. Thankyou!
Nadina Cole-Potter aka Phoenix Bubbe, fka Scottsdale Bubbe
Yes, I can schedule for another day. I tend to do 2 a month so let me know what works ;) thanks for the support!
Thankyou! MWFSat,Sun works. That oddball exception, (Fridays, every 3 weeks, beginning 12/6/2024) is precious bc we finally have a worker assigned by the service who actually knows how to and will clean properly and thoroughly. Sat or Sun might attract an audience that is still on someone’s M-F 9-5 payroll. Or after dinner (7pm PST?) any evening.
I want to schedule these for when my kids are at school. :) I'm flexible though, we'll see how it goes.
Try advance scheduling and I will try to work around it. Could you record and post, also?
Hello Walter - I like your writing so signed up for the year. Question for the writing Q&A: Do you think Substack can be used for serial narrative fiction, like Dickens and Trollope did with magazines? If people find it in the middle, would they go back to the beginning? Or do we need to have them access the first chapter first and go from there? (I say "access" because Substack posts include video, audio, text and images - potentially reaching non-readers.) Thanks!
I'm experimenting with this. I've decided to do an audio version of my book 'Beyond Birkie Fever.' It's nice because I want to have daily content. However, I don't think it's a direct line from book to reader. Instead, you have to simultaneously develop some complimentary content to generate interest in the book. For example, I'll be releasing a podcast soon where I discuss some of the memories that were churned up when I read my last chapter. The Podcast component of Substack seems to be really powerful, though I've only been doing it for about 2 months. The short answer is yes, I think you can serialize fiction on Substack, but I'm still in the process of figuring out the best way to do it. Thanks for the awesome question and for your generous sponsorship!
Yeah, I've seen chapter 14 of BBF come by and haven't jumped in. I'd be 13 chapters behind! And by the time I caught up, 13 more might have come along and I'd still be behind!
To get around that, I'm thinking of sending paying readers to a separate site where the content is dripped one day at a time, like an online course. No bingeing, or looking ahead in the book. They'd have to wait for the next installment. I hope they'd look forward to it.
If I published it on Substack they could go back to the beginning, but as I said, it's a daunting thought to have all that catching-up to do. Better, psychologically, to give them the first chapter and deliver it from there. That's why I may need to go beyond Substack to create that reader experience.
They kind of stand alone, but I've toyed with that problem. It's all an experiment. I know that quite a few Substackers have released serialized novels. I'll keep trying to figure out a better way to do it :)
How do we get the Zoom link?