Tell Paid-Subscriber-Worthy Stories on Substack
Ah, how do you tell captivating, paid-subscriber-worthy personal stories?
Many Substack writers are on here to share their life experiences. But to tell stories that enthrall readers, you need to know narrative. To know narrative, you need to know plot.
It seems like we should naturally be able to write gripping narratives. We tell stories all the time, don’t we? All those delightful Facebook posts and conversations with friends?
No, we write and tell anecdotes: This happened and then this happened and then this happened…. No plot.
There’s a good reason for this: Our lives are anecdotal and aren’t interesting until we plot them: This caused this to happen and then I felt this is how we make meaning.
The same is true for many Substack writers. They don’t tell stories, they share (dull) anecdotes, thinking they’re stories.
To engage subscribers, especially paying subscribers, we need to make our personal stories (a.k.a. short-form memoir, narrative essays) enthralling—as in I-can’t-wait-to-read-next-week’s-post enthralling.
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