I enjoy reading this, but as a widow on a fixed income, do you know how much I would have to pay for all the good substack posts there are? I am a poet, I have a memoir trying to get published before I die- and I was one of the first women to be ordained. My memoir, "Rabbi, Your Cleavage is Showing" is languishing and I may have to self …
I enjoy reading this, but as a widow on a fixed income, do you know how much I would have to pay for all the good substack posts there are? I am a poet, I have a memoir trying to get published before I die- and I was one of the first women to be ordained. My memoir, "Rabbi, Your Cleavage is Showing" is languishing and I may have to self publish. Two agents thought it was good but not something to be shopped around now (too Jewish!) Well, yeah, I was a volunteer in 1967 and in the IDF in 1968-9. Your writing makes an impact, but finances are still tough for many of us and I don't see any change for myself. Keep writing. I'll let the younger ones be patrons and will still read this wonderful work!
Your situation is hugely common, and I think one of the shortcomings of the platform. We're all "unbundled" which means there's inevitably going to be a cutoff in terms of the audience's resources. I don't like that ultimately we're in a kind of competition for the reader's dollar, and in some cases, where the writer relies on the newsletter as their main source of income, the stakes are incredibly high.
That's one of the reasons I don't mind the level I'm at. It's a nice extra bit of money, but if Substack vanished, I wouldn't be in trouble financially in terms of the big picture.
I enjoy reading this, but as a widow on a fixed income, do you know how much I would have to pay for all the good substack posts there are? I am a poet, I have a memoir trying to get published before I die- and I was one of the first women to be ordained. My memoir, "Rabbi, Your Cleavage is Showing" is languishing and I may have to self publish. Two agents thought it was good but not something to be shopped around now (too Jewish!) Well, yeah, I was a volunteer in 1967 and in the IDF in 1968-9. Your writing makes an impact, but finances are still tough for many of us and I don't see any change for myself. Keep writing. I'll let the younger ones be patrons and will still read this wonderful work!
Your situation is hugely common, and I think one of the shortcomings of the platform. We're all "unbundled" which means there's inevitably going to be a cutoff in terms of the audience's resources. I don't like that ultimately we're in a kind of competition for the reader's dollar, and in some cases, where the writer relies on the newsletter as their main source of income, the stakes are incredibly high.
That's one of the reasons I don't mind the level I'm at. It's a nice extra bit of money, but if Substack vanished, I wouldn't be in trouble financially in terms of the big picture.