Substack
A new year on a new platform, and an outline of how it might work!
Feeling my way with Substack, I can only ask for your patience over the next few weeks as I try and turn this platform “on” to paying subscribers.
Looking around at how other writers use this place, there are all kinds of different structures and plans for subscriptions and subscribers, but I will try and keep this very simple to start with… on the proviso that if it doesn’t work, I will pull the plug, subscriptions will end and we can all go back to normal service at Bog Myrtle & Peat.
As a starter for Substack, I will produce one article per week which is only available to paying subscribers. Knowing that I sometimes struggle to contain myself, I will work hard to ensure that it’s not more than five a month (to allow for the odd lapse of excitement).
As part of an ongoing process of reviewing, editing and redrafting existing work, I will also continue to pull up blog articles from the last sixteen years of Bog Myrtle & Peat and republish it here - this will be free to access - and while it sounds like a weaker offering, I’m actually quite excited by this. Even if I say it myself, there’s some fun stuff on there which I had completely forgotten about!
My enormous thanks to those who have already paid up as subscribers here. It’s highly unlikely that I will be able to quit my day-writing-job off the back of Substack, but contributions so far have already made a meaningful difference to how I will prioritise this work. Thank you… if nothing else, it’s a vote of confidence in a working landscape which often feels very uncertain.
Judging by the fact that people have paid to subscribe, I have to assume that it’s quite easy - just follow the link at the bottom of this article and select to give whatever you like.
The first “paid” piece is already waiting in the torpedo tubes for the New Year, and I wish everybody reading this an excellent Hogmanay.