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Lois Nesbitt's avatar

Well, that was easy! Here's a note (not an article) I posted recently that meets my "golden nugget" category.

https://substack.com/@loisnesbittyoga/note/c-245065182

Nikki Finlay's avatar

I've often written about my travels. I'm going to do one soon to celebrate some of my fellow authors' book awards!

Blanca Valencia's avatar

This is exactly what I need to read. Thanks Sarah!

Patricia Cusack's avatar

I love this. A useful idea for a post when you don't really have time but you want to check in with your people with SOMETHING. I'll be using it. Thank you, Sarah.

Alexander Davidian's avatar

Really appreciated this advice. Sick of the tsunami of performative notes (and posts) proliferating on Substack.

Sarah Fay, PhD's avatar

Tsunami is right!

Blue's avatar
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Love this idea. Will do it soon. Sarah, I've been trying to find out how to send you one of my paid posts (Behind My Substack Curtain), in which I share my nuggets on how I grew my Substack from 50 to over 6,000 subscribers in one year. You and your Substack are one of the secrets I talk about -- twice in this article. I don't know how to get it to you, but I'd like you to see how important you've been in my success. Thank you. Blue💙

Annette Gendler's avatar

Incidentally, I just prepped a golden nugget post yesterday, sharing the 'funnest" book I've read in a long time.

Sarah Fay, PhD's avatar

So cool, Annette. Link to it here!

Annette Gendler's avatar

It'll publish while I'm roaming Yellowstone…

Christopher Pepper's avatar

This is the closest I’ve come to a “golden nugget” post recently, but it sounds like you would recommend stripping it down more and making it a little more personal. https://www.teenhealthtoday.com/p/why-americas-boys-are-struggling

Sarah Fay, PhD's avatar

A little more personal, but I love it. Maybe a tl;dw?

Mary Ann Rollano RN's avatar

Thank you for this. I wrote a poem or as I like to call it my “healing manifesto.” It is my entire philosophy wrapped up. I love it for myself. Was very hesitant about sharing it with my readers, I am not a poet, but now I think I will. I suppose it’s my golden nugget!

Sarah Fay, PhD's avatar

I love that you did that. Definitely something to share.

The Golden Nugget is a little different. Even though what we do is amazing, and we want people to read it, of course, when we ask them to read something we wrote, it's work. When we send something as a little gift, it's a gift.