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Who opened the door to your writing life? (opens the original)
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On Sept. 16, 1918, Charles Raymond Bray was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.A veteran of WWII and the Vietnam and Korean wars, he chose not to talk much about what he saw overseas. It’s just not what folks from his generation did. <img alt="" class="s
Nobody's rushing Mary Roblyn (opens the original)
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I invited who writes Writer, interrupted, to talk about the experience of writing something versus publishing it — because I’m eager for us to start unpacking the ocean of inner experience that shows up between the moment we write something and the steps we take when we decide to give it to the world. Mary is the author of a twice-featured, bestselling Substack publication she began publishing on Substack in 2023 — after left an encouraging word in response to a comment she w
Promoting Your Work Without the Sales Ick (opens the original)
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If promoting your work on Substack tends to leave you overwhelmed, vaguely resistant or wondering whether you’re supposed to become an entirely different person in order to do it well, this conversation is for you.We spend the first part of this live stream exploring the four principles I use to decide what kinds of promotion actually belong in my publishing practice — regardless of where I’m showing up, Substack or otherwise. My hope is that you can use them as a way to tell the difference betw
Promotion as invitation, not a sales pitch (opens the original)
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Promotion doesn’t have to be a sales pitch. It can be an invitation — which makes it much closer to editorial thinking than to advertising.In this episode: why the translation between I wrote this and here’s how you might enter it with me is a genuinely separate skill, what a lived vocabulary is and why it’s the only material worth building promotion around, and the case for publishing less and nudging more.Plus the Substack Promo Generator, free to try through Friday, Aug. 28.
Promotion as invitation, not a sales pitch (opens the original)
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I’ve been talking with a lot of writers this month about their relationship with promoting their work.And there is a particular tension I keep hearing:I want people to find my work. I just don’t want to become a person who is constantly selling it.I understand that tension.Especially if your work comes from somewhere intimate, thoughtful or deeply considered. If you are a writer, thinker, teacher, philosopher, journalist or storyteller, the thing you’re making may have started very far away from
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