Today: Indulge in a Little Self-Promotion
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Today: Indulge in a little self-promotion.
You’re invited to share the post you’re most proud of.
Back when we did these every Friday, we had over a thousand people sharing, meeting, talking, being seen.
What to do next:
In the comments below, share the post you’re most proud of.
Tell us a little bit about it.
Include the link.
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P.S. I wrote about proving ourselves and letting go and my interview with the Spanish novelist Javier Marías on my author Substack here. For those of you who’ve taken the Craft of Writing on Substack, you’ll notice many of the techniques we’ve studied at play...
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For those of you focusing on Growth this month/quarter, Notes is still the way and this makes it much, much easier:
I'm so proud of this post! Read it! It will help you so much on Notes!
I break down the 4 types of Notes that get traction. If you're not doing one of these, it's like being in a room of people speaking French and speaking Samoan. It likely won't translate into engagement!
I usually don't use this many exclamation points, but I love this.
https://www.substackwritersatwork.com/p/substack-viral-notes-prompts
Now you...
Oh, this is so fun! I'm loving all of these. Here's mine:
I wrote this post to introduce readers to the Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied her culture at every turn—divorcing her husband, losing custody of her son, and writing openly about female desire in a male-dominated literary world that called her shameless for it. She published four books, made a landmark documentary, and died at 32, leaving behind a body of work that was banned after the Islamic Revolution and is still censored today. I wrote about her because her fierce commitment to women's freedom and her insistence on living her art completely feels always urgent. Her heart is my heart.
https://maryhickmanpoet.substack.com/p/iranian-poet-forugh-farrokhzad-on