I really like the video format! It’s nice to hear your voice. You are right. The best thing a more successful writer can do is to lend a hand to someone less well known. You’ve certainly done that for me by featuring me on Lighthouse and it’s made a huge difference in my life. I’m hoping as I grow I’ll be able to do the same for someone else someday.
I very much appreciate these comments, NOT to promote, in any way, my own writing, but to affirm the observation that the more famous writers here on Substack (I won’t name them, as they are obvious! They are famous afterall!), rarely if ever engage with, or comment on, other people’s writing. This is sad as Substack, I believe, is meant to be a community of engaged collaborators. So I question their motives even as I know their motives: to gain financially from others only by using Substack as a means to publishing their own work. Period.
One known writer, whom I already admire, is an exception as I’ve seen @shermanalexie respond and comment on other’s posts. That person was PUMPED he notice and affirmed her writing! So you’re right Alexander, it does make a difference. Provided that kind of recognition is important to you.
Nowadays, I’m less inclined to subscribe to well-known writers (more and more of whom put their stuff behind their paywalls); the wisdom from “ordinary” people who write simply to tell their stories, I have found to be more genuine and authentic. And sincere—they are motivated not by the financial aspect of potential “paid subscribers,” but because they have a story to tell and they want to share it.
I really like the video format! It’s nice to hear your voice. You are right. The best thing a more successful writer can do is to lend a hand to someone less well known. You’ve certainly done that for me by featuring me on Lighthouse and it’s made a huge difference in my life. I’m hoping as I grow I’ll be able to do the same for someone else someday.
I very much appreciate these comments, NOT to promote, in any way, my own writing, but to affirm the observation that the more famous writers here on Substack (I won’t name them, as they are obvious! They are famous afterall!), rarely if ever engage with, or comment on, other people’s writing. This is sad as Substack, I believe, is meant to be a community of engaged collaborators. So I question their motives even as I know their motives: to gain financially from others only by using Substack as a means to publishing their own work. Period.
One known writer, whom I already admire, is an exception as I’ve seen @shermanalexie respond and comment on other’s posts. That person was PUMPED he notice and affirmed her writing! So you’re right Alexander, it does make a difference. Provided that kind of recognition is important to you.
Nowadays, I’m less inclined to subscribe to well-known writers (more and more of whom put their stuff behind their paywalls); the wisdom from “ordinary” people who write simply to tell their stories, I have found to be more genuine and authentic. And sincere—they are motivated not by the financial aspect of potential “paid subscribers,” but because they have a story to tell and they want to share it.