SUBSTACK

          

Have you heard about Substack? I kept seeing references to it, but had no idea what it was. So, this morning, I went online and looked it up. I found a great article at What is Substack & How Does It Work? A Beginner's Guide | Kindlepreneur. I haven’t yet read the entire article but plan to. Once I’ve done that, I’m not sure if I’ll continue to post to my blog or if I’ll begin posting to Substack.

          Basically, it is a newsletter platform which allows the author to send the information directly to readers’ inboxes. It is totally free once you set it up; but if you so desire, you can make it much more complex and actually receive monies for what you post. I don’t believe I have enough readers to warrant a charge for whatever I put there, and most of you wouldn’t want to pay me for my verbiage anyway.

          With people like Robert Reich and Boo Walker posting to this site, I’m not sure I’d even begin to qualify. Mr. Reich writes politically oriented essays with regard to the fool and his minions in Washington DC. Mr. Walker is an author and he posts information about not only his books, but the books written by other individuals.

          I’m sure there are many other popular or well-known individuals who post to this site. The reason I know about the two gentlemen mentioned above is that I received their emails prior to their posting to Substack. I hope the article will tell me how to go about learning who else posts to Substack so I could read other posts.

          To be perfectly honest, I don’t imagine I’ll post to Substack, mainly because I don’t believe I’m a good enough writer or have anything of great importance to say. Originally when I began posting to “Paula’s Widows Mite,” I was writing about how to reimagine and re-engage with life without my husband. It’s been more than six years now, so if I haven’t reimagined or re-engaged by this point, I must be either very stupid or dead.

          I guess I’d need to find a new name for my blog/newsletter if I moved to Substack. I’m not sure what that would be, and I’m also not sure if I’d really have anything to say that anyone would want to read. I feel like the majority of the posts I’ve done for January have been mostly whining about my life. Who wants to read that, and who would come back for more?

          Simply put, I don’t know if taking the time to write something every single day is actually worth the effort or worth trying a new location and trying to increase my readership. Perhaps this is really a waste of my time and yours.