FRIDAY ROUND-UP, Nov 10, 2023 wk#45
The usual Friday stuff.
Good afternoon, my posse!
My posse, of course, consists of peeps and buds.
Peeps are casual friends, followers on Medium or Twitter, and other places.
My buds are a closer group of subscribers at Medium, Substack, or anywhere that is not dependent on the platform itself to let us communicate.
For instance, Facebook can decide to make a change in its algorithms, and POOF! You may no longer exist. So a platform like this one is much more practical and valuable to both of us.
I don’t like to miss anything I am waiting for.
Anyway, here’s where we are right now in my journalistic architecture.
My daily mutterings/journal section will likely be posted daily. POSTED. To this area, or blog, whatever you wish to call it. It won’t be emailed to your crowded mailbox except once or twice a week, Fridays, for certain, and occasionally during the first part of the week, too.
So even on Thursday, if you had the notion, you could click on over to the site and read Monday’s post in its entirety.
On Friday’s edition that will be emailed to you, there will be links for your convenience, to posts you may not have already read.
MY NEWSLETTER UPDATE
This is a newsletter about two things.
It is about my writing for those peeps who seem to enjoy my writing for some reason. You are a blessing to me. Some would like to know a little more about a writer’s life. I have augmented my income from the sale of my books and some from writing for Medium.com when people join. I do have some digital products available, and I am working on this Substack, and it will someday make me some money.
Folks are always asking for pointers on how they can do the same, so helping them is part of what this publication is all about. I will chronicle my progress and help others do the same. I may be only a couple of years ahead of a lot of my readers, but we’ll take this trip together. As I worked the last forty years, I never realized that life could be like this. It’s great now, however!
We will look at writing to get paid from a couple of different places, writing books, having a blog, or a newsletter like this one, and maybe making a video or e-course. These projects are, together, how I get paid for, and how people support my creativity.
Part of this report will concern building the number of subscribers to this publication. Most of it is free, of course, but some parts concerning writing will be published for paid subscribers only, encouraging you to sign up for a small fee to work with parts that can be profitable for you.
It’s all free now, and the change will be gradual this coming year.
thanks,
-don
MY REAL-LIFE WRITER’S LIFE
Yesterday, I spent a good deal of time in Green Hills at my neurologist, and today, I had to trade my wheelchair marked DRIVE for an ultra-lite model. So the last couple of days have been short on hours.
The rest of the time today I spent working on this newsletter to finally firm up the schedule and be able to continue writing content as soon as I can.
I also took some time to revamp my Twitter profile info and my Medium.com profile info.
⭐Publish & Profit: A Beginner's Guide to Making Your First $1000 Writing on Medium (affiliate link.)
⭐Publish & Profit: A Beginner's Guide to Making Your First $1000 Writing on Medium (affiliate link.)
And don’t forget I’ve had a stroke and sometimes I publish all out of my head.
Keep those questions coming, and tell your remaining friends about us!
Remember, this newsletter is completely free! If you ever begin to feel guilty about being such a taker and not a giver, I believe there is a place at the bottom where you can buy me a cup of coffee.
Like THAT will support the arts.
Thanks,
-don, changing what I can change, laughing at what I can’t.
Am I a peep or a bud, Don?