The Beauty In Adapting To This Odd Circus We Call Substack

It's all working IN FAVOR of your success.

There are loads of little tidbits about Substack that you don’t even know you don’t know until someone tells you you don’t know it.

(That was a headache-inducing sentence, wasn’t it?)

We’re literally learning new things every day here. Case in point:

Karen Cherry

made us privy to yet another new Substack feature just yesterday. We can now tweak our homepages even more than before.

I may not have known if I didn’t subscribe to her newsletter.

It’s the same as I had no idea what services my fellow Stackers would ask me for until I uncaged my little VA business and let it fly. What I started out offering versus what I’m actually doing for writers are two different things.

This is proof that iteration and reiteration are the cornerstones of experimentation and trying new things.

When a writer asks me to do a task I’d never thought about before, I get to test the waters, see how long it takes, how it all works out, and then add it to my building list of services.

One of the best examples I can think of is displaying memoir/serial chapters in proper ascending order. I would have never thought about this task as a service because I personally don’t write in chapters (yet). But many of you are publishing serial chapters and some of you don’t know you can make them display in proper order starting from Chapter One.

Had one of my clients not asked me to do it for her, I would have overlooked it as a service offering.

I also would never have considered that writers may want help migrating their content between platforms until one client asked for it. Many of you are publishing on Substack, Medium, and personal blogs simultaneously and what I’m learning as I go is that writers either don’t have the time or don’t want to take the time to do it themselves.

Just as Substack is adapting to the needs of writers, we are adapting to how we make the platform work for us. And I am adapting to what you all want by jumping in and doing the work for you.

Life happens. Adapt to it.

Embrace change and make the most of what is put in front of you. It’s how we all grow as writers and as humans.

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If your tolerance for tinkering with Substack is below sea level, you’ve got options! Send me your to-do list and forget about it.