Description: Here you will read about life and aging--accepting the inevitable while holding on tight to joy--with tools and inspiration for your journey.
I actually realize I don't even have a bio profile. Oh my.
Description: Here you will read about life and aging--accepting the inevitable while holding on tight to joy--with tools and inspiration for your journey.
I actually realize I don't even have a bio profile. Oh my.
I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at Substacks … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by restacking this article and entering your beginning elements into Notes plus it would be good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
My reaction to 3 elements: Sue, your brief description works well … I’d shorten it just a bit … "Tools and inspiration to help you accept the inevitable while holding on tight to joy."
Advice on profile: be inspired by that delightful photo on your about page.
Thanks Joyce for your patience as I worked on this. Wow, what a GREAT exercise, bravo to you for beginning your course so brilliantly. Okay, here is my bio.
Life-long student of the healing arts (psychology, writing, massage, Reiki and yoga), mother, wife, homemaker, writer, teacher, avid gardener, quilter
And here's the rewritten description (I want to focus on healing for clarification)
My story is your story, it’s just dressed up differently. Stories written to inspire hope, encourage growth, heal the soul and lift the spirit. There’s always something to feel joyful about. Join me as we heal together.
Yes, I just learned Tuesday that I should be stacking all of my posts to Notes. I can see that I'm heading into a learning curve about Substack which is awesome! 💜
I don't agree with the idea of stacking all our posts to notes. Where did that come from? I think it could kill Notes if we do that. I think Notes is a place to build community and add value. On occasion, if there's a reason to restack a post, that would be fine but I hope that's not going out as a recommendation.
Bio Profile: Interior designer, who loves to write about being creative.
Title: Chez Hanny
Brief Description: Chez Hanny is the home of writing on career changes, lifestyle choices and harnessing creativity from a music teacher who became an interior designer.
My reaction to 3 elements: I would like to see you go deeper and be more specific. I would assume most people believe interior designers are creative. What is your specific focus? Does music inform your work? And what do you focus on? What would make someone choose you over a different designer?
Your title, I assume, is a play on your name but I don’t know what it means. And your description goes into career change and it looks like you made a significant one. How did you make it? What gave you courage? If we were having coffee and you were telling me about something you really want people to know, what would it be?
If any of this is helpful, please feel free to resubmit.
Bio: Interior designer with previous life as a music teacher. Inspired by natural and musical rhythms. Writing about career change and living creatively.
Title: Chez Hanny
Brief Description: Chez = 'in the home of'. Hanny = me! It's a cosy, stylish place where I write about my career journey from music teaching to interior design.
Hannah ... profile is much clearer and draws me in. Brief Description is still focused on you rather than what you're bringing to readers. Weird possibility ... Creative ideas to help you sing your own song ... at home and in your career. Help them bring music and rhythm into their homes ... visually. This one is tricky but you have something unique here ... you just have to help your readers see it.
Angelina … good start ... a little more clarity on what you're offering is needed.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements: I worry about the word “fairy” and it’s paranormal connotations. I assume you’re wanting to convey magical results, that working with you makes things seem simple and powerful. That’s good, but I worry about the word in the title. Probably depends on who your audience is … however, with the proximity to “airy-fairy” (impractical and foolishly idealistic.) it’s a concern. And, it’s a metaphor that carries into your brief description.
Your bio needs to be shorter: punchier and more focused on why YOU are the one to write this. I’m not sure if you’re teaching people how to do these things themselves (marketing, etc.) or if you’re going to do them for them. Are we talking about secrets, short-cuts, templates, processes … what is it that you can do for them that will make life seem like magic, easy-peasy. Are you going to help the save time, make more money, be more valued, climb the ladder … ? Would love to see a rewrite if you decide to make changes.
Thanks Joyce. I've never thought Fairy would have a negative connotation. You're right about results offered, as I'm still on the fence and want to do a bit off both - writing services and DIY for the ones who want to learn. I'll rewrite and send it back. Your feedback is much appreciated.
For a whole lot of us Fairy is magical and not negative at all ... you are dancing in a field where creativity begets practical results ... it requires tricky footwork. Looking forward to your resubmission.
Reena ... Close with lots of potential. Imagine yourself as a character in one of your plays ... an imaginative writer introducing herself to a passing stranger.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements: While I like the juxtaposition and energy of the title, I feel like it needs something. A clue in the profile … suspended outsider? ponderer? Lost? I think you’re close on all three elements but I don’t quite get where you’re going. I really like: making meaning out of this too short existence. Curious about “suspended outsider.” You’ve got a lot to work with here … would love to see a rewrite pared down to the bone and missing things that could go on your about page … instagram, etc.
Caveat. BIG Caveat. The reactions about these elements are my *opinions* … take them as opinions, NOT gospel. Your newsletter is *yours* … your vision … your own creative expression. For instance, I came across an About Page today that I drooled over, actually lusted after. Then I looked at the title and thought: clever but obscure.
The bio was only: A traveller in an antique land. What’s that about, I wondered? And the brief description: Journey to the faraway.
No credibility build up. No value to the reader. No Marketing 101.
But, oh, that About Page! So, I went exploring in @Cosmographia. And I’m here to report: If you have a vision, marketing be damned, hold on to your vision!
Such a great idea -- and service. Thanks Joyce. I have not paid attention to my newsletter in this way...just barreled into writing, but I sure need help in making sure I am seen/heard better. Here is what I have currently on my substack:
I'm still wandering around the right wording to attract the audience I want to focus on.
Title: Marketing Fairy
Bio-Profile: My longest love is the one with words. Journalist turned content creator and strategist.
I'm build a community around my passion topics: marketing, self-development and productivity and documenting the process.
Brief Description: Hi, I'm Angelina, a marketing executive by day, Marketing Fairy by night.
Welcome to my journey to build a community around content marketing, self-development and productivity. Join me to get actionable tips to learn how to turn visitors into customers.
Getting ready to make some major changes to my substack and newsletter. Here's what things will look like:
Title: The Alchemist's Journal
Bio-Profile: Actor. Writer. Alchemist. Making alchemy easy, and transformation accessible. Showing you how an alchemist changes the world by changing their mind.
Brief Description: Alchemy and Esoterica made easy. Insights into how an alchemist changes the world.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements: Love the possibilities in your title … wondering if “Inside the Alchemist’s Journal” would work? Definitely draws me in. Bio-profile should tell why YOU are the one to write this work. Are you a life alchemist transforming minds in movies and words? Wrap your self in a magic cloak and spell-bind us. Then in the Brief Description tell us how you’ll bring us into the magic. Don’t just make it easy, make us believe we can transform the world … all in 1-2 sentences, of course. Feel free to resubmit if you rework this … would love to see where you can take it.
Bio: Recovering English professor (specialist in women writers), starting a new life as the full-time writer I always wanted to be. Author of two books publ. by Norton, writing coach, and two-time NEH public scholar.
Brief Description: Musings about the lives of women writers—my own and others. After a successful 23-year career as an English Professor and author, I sold my house, took my daugther to college, and bought a one-way ticket to Paris. Now, I’m sorting through all that I’ve learned from women writers of the past about how to live and how to write.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My Reaction to your 3 elements: I love the idea that you tossed your life in the air and bought a one-way ticket to Paris to live your passion. I hope you will let yourself write elements that convey that courage, that vulnerability. You’ve done something probably thousands (millions?) of women dream about. Regale us with your story, what it took to fly free. How you might help other women live their dreams with the help of women writers from the past.
I hope you turn over the sheet that has this version of the story, grab a purple crayon, and write the real story in a new title, a bio of 1 -2 sentences (Something like: Recovering English professor and author flies away from the humdrum to live her real life in Paris.)
Feel free to resubmit this if you decide to rework it. ;-)
Thank you, Joyce! I like your suggestion! I appreciate the feedback very much. I have been writing vulnerably in my Substack. I left 10 months ago, so a lot has happened! I started my journey in Paris but have ended up in Scotland. Not as sexy, I know! But it has all been exciting. So many lessons learned. Thanks again!
Thanks, Anne ... you've got great material ... why you went to Paris; why you left. Looking forward to hearing those lessons. (I went to Mexico for two years and still figuring out why I left.) ;-)
Thanks for taking the time to review our intros. I've been a blogger for years, but only on Substack for a few months and still waiting to see growth in my numbers. Would love your suggestions!
Title: Empty-Nest Joyride!
Bio-Profile: Retired speech-language pathologist, blogger, and author of "Lent Through the Little Things." Finding joy in the empty nest years through faith, family, food, cycling, travel, cabin life, and being "Lala" to my grands.
Brief Description: Stories that inspire promise, possibility, and the art of finding joy during your empty-nest years. How faith, family, travel, and more enlivened this unfamiliar chapter for me. This is where your new story begins. Come, turn the page with me.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
My Reaction to your 3 elements: Great title … sets up a tension between sorrow and joy. Clearly addresses an audience and a specific issue. Profile could be more intimate and revealing. Why are YOU the one to write about this issue? This could take several rewrites … it’s some of the hardest writing for most creatives.
Your subject is about the emotions of empty-nesters … show how you connect with that (in 1 or 2 sentences … ;-)) The Brief Description needs to offer the reader a value. Love your last sentence … a soft call to action … however, “turn the page” sounds like a book. What do THEY really want to come do with you?
Thanks for playing and I look forward to seeing your Substack. Will be back later today. There is a tension in your Title that is intriguing and inviting.
Bio-Profile: multi-creative in pursuit of doing exactly whatever I want in life. fiction author in progress, life figure-outer in progress, societal rule breaker extraordinaire.
smells like: homemade bread, book paper, potted plants, & potential
Brief Description: Life doesn't happen at a destination. It happens on the way there; tears, laughs, triumphs, and tumbles included. Let’s get personal—the kind of personal that feels uncomfortable for those entrenched in the mock-realness of current internet culture.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. Great job restacking this on Notes!
This response basically covers all your submissions. I'd prefer to respond only to one so feel free to resubmit one if you decide to rework your elements.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements:
Wow! You actually have four publications. Do they really have four distinct audiences with four different subscriber lists? There are themes that seem to run through them all … creativity, making our own rules, writing - fiction. All of your titles are intriguing word plays without suggesting an audience. It strikes me that you could add something like “for Rule Breakers” to any of the titles and give people a way to say “that’s for me.”
Love the “smells like” idea but I still don’t get a sense of why YOU are the person to write this.
Bio-Profile: multi-creative in pursuit of doing exactly whatever I want in life. fiction author in progress, life figure-outer in progress, societal rule breaker extraordinaire.
smells like: homemade bread, book paper, potted plants, & potential
Brief Description: Dismantling your idea of societal expectations one newsletter at a time.
Society has rules. Some should be followed. Most shouldn't. A newsletter that's good for the "trouble makers", but vital for those who have always done as they're told.
Thanks Joyce. Here are my responses.
title: Tales of a Wayward Yogini
Description: Here you will read about life and aging--accepting the inevitable while holding on tight to joy--with tools and inspiration for your journey.
I actually realize I don't even have a bio profile. Oh my.
title: Tales of a Wayward Yogini
Description: Here you will read about life and aging--accepting the inevitable while holding on tight to joy--with tools and inspiration for your journey.
I actually realize I don't even have a bio profile. Oh my.
Thanks for playing ... i
My response:
I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at Substacks … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by restacking this article and entering your beginning elements into Notes plus it would be good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
My reaction to 3 elements: Sue, your brief description works well … I’d shorten it just a bit … "Tools and inspiration to help you accept the inevitable while holding on tight to joy."
Advice on profile: be inspired by that delightful photo on your about page.
Thanks Joyce for your patience as I worked on this. Wow, what a GREAT exercise, bravo to you for beginning your course so brilliantly. Okay, here is my bio.
Life-long student of the healing arts (psychology, writing, massage, Reiki and yoga), mother, wife, homemaker, writer, teacher, avid gardener, quilter
And here's the rewritten description (I want to focus on healing for clarification)
My story is your story, it’s just dressed up differently. Stories written to inspire hope, encourage growth, heal the soul and lift the spirit. There’s always something to feel joyful about. Join me as we heal together.
Yes, I just learned Tuesday that I should be stacking all of my posts to Notes. I can see that I'm heading into a learning curve about Substack which is awesome! 💜
I don't agree with the idea of stacking all our posts to notes. Where did that come from? I think it could kill Notes if we do that. I think Notes is a place to build community and add value. On occasion, if there's a reason to restack a post, that would be fine but I hope that's not going out as a recommendation.
Have been swamped, I see my deadline is tomorrow, yikes. I will work on this as soon as I finish my post for tomorrow! 💜
Bio Profile: Interior designer, who loves to write about being creative.
Title: Chez Hanny
Brief Description: Chez Hanny is the home of writing on career changes, lifestyle choices and harnessing creativity from a music teacher who became an interior designer.
Hannah ... thanks for playing!
My reaction to 3 elements: I would like to see you go deeper and be more specific. I would assume most people believe interior designers are creative. What is your specific focus? Does music inform your work? And what do you focus on? What would make someone choose you over a different designer?
Your title, I assume, is a play on your name but I don’t know what it means. And your description goes into career change and it looks like you made a significant one. How did you make it? What gave you courage? If we were having coffee and you were telling me about something you really want people to know, what would it be?
If any of this is helpful, please feel free to resubmit.
Thank you, Joyce! This is very helpful. I'm going to rewrite them and resubmit 🙏🏻
Bio: Interior designer with previous life as a music teacher. Inspired by natural and musical rhythms. Writing about career change and living creatively.
Title: Chez Hanny
Brief Description: Chez = 'in the home of'. Hanny = me! It's a cosy, stylish place where I write about my career journey from music teaching to interior design.
Hannah ... profile is much clearer and draws me in. Brief Description is still focused on you rather than what you're bringing to readers. Weird possibility ... Creative ideas to help you sing your own song ... at home and in your career. Help them bring music and rhythm into their homes ... visually. This one is tricky but you have something unique here ... you just have to help your readers see it.
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks so much for this, Joyce. It’s really helping me to think carefully about these important details 😊
Angelina … good start ... a little more clarity on what you're offering is needed.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements: I worry about the word “fairy” and it’s paranormal connotations. I assume you’re wanting to convey magical results, that working with you makes things seem simple and powerful. That’s good, but I worry about the word in the title. Probably depends on who your audience is … however, with the proximity to “airy-fairy” (impractical and foolishly idealistic.) it’s a concern. And, it’s a metaphor that carries into your brief description.
Your bio needs to be shorter: punchier and more focused on why YOU are the one to write this. I’m not sure if you’re teaching people how to do these things themselves (marketing, etc.) or if you’re going to do them for them. Are we talking about secrets, short-cuts, templates, processes … what is it that you can do for them that will make life seem like magic, easy-peasy. Are you going to help the save time, make more money, be more valued, climb the ladder … ? Would love to see a rewrite if you decide to make changes.
Thanks Joyce. I've never thought Fairy would have a negative connotation. You're right about results offered, as I'm still on the fence and want to do a bit off both - writing services and DIY for the ones who want to learn. I'll rewrite and send it back. Your feedback is much appreciated.
For a whole lot of us Fairy is magical and not negative at all ... you are dancing in a field where creativity begets practical results ... it requires tricky footwork. Looking forward to your resubmission.
Reena ... Close with lots of potential. Imagine yourself as a character in one of your plays ... an imaginative writer introducing herself to a passing stranger.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements: While I like the juxtaposition and energy of the title, I feel like it needs something. A clue in the profile … suspended outsider? ponderer? Lost? I think you’re close on all three elements but I don’t quite get where you’re going. I really like: making meaning out of this too short existence. Curious about “suspended outsider.” You’ve got a lot to work with here … would love to see a rewrite pared down to the bone and missing things that could go on your about page … instagram, etc.
Caveat. BIG Caveat. The reactions about these elements are my *opinions* … take them as opinions, NOT gospel. Your newsletter is *yours* … your vision … your own creative expression. For instance, I came across an About Page today that I drooled over, actually lusted after. Then I looked at the title and thought: clever but obscure.
The bio was only: A traveller in an antique land. What’s that about, I wondered? And the brief description: Journey to the faraway.
No credibility build up. No value to the reader. No Marketing 101.
But, oh, that About Page! So, I went exploring in @Cosmographia. And I’m here to report: If you have a vision, marketing be damned, hold on to your vision!
Such a great idea -- and service. Thanks Joyce. I have not paid attention to my newsletter in this way...just barreled into writing, but I sure need help in making sure I am seen/heard better. Here is what I have currently on my substack:
your title: Arrivals and Departures (@ReenaKapoor, https://arrivalsanddepartures.substack.com/)
bio-profile: Poet. Playwright. Photographer. Storyteller. Citizen Historian. Skeptic. Techie. Suspended outsider. Wanderer. Ponderer. Often lost. Instagrammer @1StarDusty. aka Reena.eth
brief description (same as short description on SS?): Poetry, essays and short stories to make sense and meaning out of this too short existence!
Sue ... have a great time at the shower and look forward to your participation!
Love this Joyce! Heading down to the bay area for my daughter's shower. When I return next week I can't wait to dive into this! 💜
Hi, thank you for this great opportunity.
I'm still wandering around the right wording to attract the audience I want to focus on.
Title: Marketing Fairy
Bio-Profile: My longest love is the one with words. Journalist turned content creator and strategist.
I'm build a community around my passion topics: marketing, self-development and productivity and documenting the process.
Brief Description: Hi, I'm Angelina, a marketing executive by day, Marketing Fairy by night.
Welcome to my journey to build a community around content marketing, self-development and productivity. Join me to get actionable tips to learn how to turn visitors into customers.
Getting ready to make some major changes to my substack and newsletter. Here's what things will look like:
Title: The Alchemist's Journal
Bio-Profile: Actor. Writer. Alchemist. Making alchemy easy, and transformation accessible. Showing you how an alchemist changes the world by changing their mind.
Brief Description: Alchemy and Esoterica made easy. Insights into how an alchemist changes the world.
Thanks for starting this awesome thread!
Jahzeer … thanks for playing
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements: Love the possibilities in your title … wondering if “Inside the Alchemist’s Journal” would work? Definitely draws me in. Bio-profile should tell why YOU are the one to write this work. Are you a life alchemist transforming minds in movies and words? Wrap your self in a magic cloak and spell-bind us. Then in the Brief Description tell us how you’ll bring us into the magic. Don’t just make it easy, make us believe we can transform the world … all in 1-2 sentences, of course. Feel free to resubmit if you rework this … would love to see where you can take it.
Thanks for the feedback! I am going to play with my 3 elements and see if I can make them really shine.
you've got great material to work with ... looking forward to seeing it.
Title: Letters from Anne
Bio: Recovering English professor (specialist in women writers), starting a new life as the full-time writer I always wanted to be. Author of two books publ. by Norton, writing coach, and two-time NEH public scholar.
Brief Description: Musings about the lives of women writers—my own and others. After a successful 23-year career as an English Professor and author, I sold my house, took my daugther to college, and bought a one-way ticket to Paris. Now, I’m sorting through all that I’ve learned from women writers of the past about how to live and how to write.
Anne ... thanks for playing!
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
*** My Reaction to your 3 elements: I love the idea that you tossed your life in the air and bought a one-way ticket to Paris to live your passion. I hope you will let yourself write elements that convey that courage, that vulnerability. You’ve done something probably thousands (millions?) of women dream about. Regale us with your story, what it took to fly free. How you might help other women live their dreams with the help of women writers from the past.
I hope you turn over the sheet that has this version of the story, grab a purple crayon, and write the real story in a new title, a bio of 1 -2 sentences (Something like: Recovering English professor and author flies away from the humdrum to live her real life in Paris.)
Feel free to resubmit this if you decide to rework it. ;-)
Thank you, Joyce! I like your suggestion! I appreciate the feedback very much. I have been writing vulnerably in my Substack. I left 10 months ago, so a lot has happened! I started my journey in Paris but have ended up in Scotland. Not as sexy, I know! But it has all been exciting. So many lessons learned. Thanks again!
Thanks, Anne ... you've got great material ... why you went to Paris; why you left. Looking forward to hearing those lessons. (I went to Mexico for two years and still figuring out why I left.) ;-)
Another possible title: One-way ticket to Paris. ;-)
Linda Hanstra
Writes Empty-Nest Joyride!
1 min ago
Thanks for taking the time to review our intros. I've been a blogger for years, but only on Substack for a few months and still waiting to see growth in my numbers. Would love your suggestions!
Title: Empty-Nest Joyride!
Bio-Profile: Retired speech-language pathologist, blogger, and author of "Lent Through the Little Things." Finding joy in the empty nest years through faith, family, food, cycling, travel, cabin life, and being "Lala" to my grands.
Brief Description: Stories that inspire promise, possibility, and the art of finding joy during your empty-nest years. How faith, family, travel, and more enlivened this unfamiliar chapter for me. This is where your new story begins. Come, turn the page with me.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. I suggest that you invite all of Substack Notes into the Feedback process by Restacking this article and entering your elements into Notes, inviting feedback.
Good practice for becoming more familiar with Notes and meeting other writers.
My Reaction to your 3 elements: Great title … sets up a tension between sorrow and joy. Clearly addresses an audience and a specific issue. Profile could be more intimate and revealing. Why are YOU the one to write about this issue? This could take several rewrites … it’s some of the hardest writing for most creatives.
Your subject is about the emotions of empty-nesters … show how you connect with that (in 1 or 2 sentences … ;-)) The Brief Description needs to offer the reader a value. Love your last sentence … a soft call to action … however, “turn the page” sounds like a book. What do THEY really want to come do with you?
Feel free to resubmit if you rework this.
Thanks for playing and I look forward to seeing your Substack. Will be back later today. There is a tension in your Title that is intriguing and inviting.
Title: On The Way There
Bio-Profile: multi-creative in pursuit of doing exactly whatever I want in life. fiction author in progress, life figure-outer in progress, societal rule breaker extraordinaire.
smells like: homemade bread, book paper, potted plants, & potential
Brief Description: Life doesn't happen at a destination. It happens on the way there; tears, laughs, triumphs, and tumbles included. Let’s get personal—the kind of personal that feels uncomfortable for those entrenched in the mock-realness of current internet culture.
***** I’ve decided to react to just these 3 elements without looking at your Substack … to try to see them as a potential reader. Great job restacking this on Notes!
This response basically covers all your submissions. I'd prefer to respond only to one so feel free to resubmit one if you decide to rework your elements.
*** My reaction to your 3 elements:
Wow! You actually have four publications. Do they really have four distinct audiences with four different subscriber lists? There are themes that seem to run through them all … creativity, making our own rules, writing - fiction. All of your titles are intriguing word plays without suggesting an audience. It strikes me that you could add something like “for Rule Breakers” to any of the titles and give people a way to say “that’s for me.”
Love the “smells like” idea but I still don’t get a sense of why YOU are the person to write this.
Title: Rogue Behavior
Bio-Profile: multi-creative in pursuit of doing exactly whatever I want in life. fiction author in progress, life figure-outer in progress, societal rule breaker extraordinaire.
smells like: homemade bread, book paper, potted plants, & potential
Brief Description: Dismantling your idea of societal expectations one newsletter at a time.
Society has rules. Some should be followed. Most shouldn't. A newsletter that's good for the "trouble makers", but vital for those who have always done as they're told.
Bella ... thanks for playing. Definitely an intriguing Title. Let me look at your Substack for a bit and I'll be back.