Shifting the Frequency of My Posts
This is a temporary experiment before I reassess the frequency
Dear City Person,
While I have been enjoying the weekly pace of working on my newsletters, I am finding it difficult to make time to engage with your offerings and with the other wonderful newsletters I am following on top of the rest of my life. After seeing that I didn’t have enough bandwidth to meaningfully focus on the next post I had scheduled for tomorrow, I thought I use this opportunity to revisit the frequency with which I post.
I have thus decided to experiment with posting every two weeks and to use the week in which I am not posting to meaningfully read and engage with the newsletters I follow.
What I have so far been appreciating about Substack is the quality of conversations I have with people unlike in other social media platforms I have been on. Even when I don’t always get public engagement, I appreciate the private one-to-one emails and texts I get from readers and the conversations I have with other writers when I comment on their posts. I want to better value these interactions through making sure I have a week for posting and a week for engagement.
I also want to announce that I will be taking a break from posting between July 29 to August 29.
I will use this break to do some reading that I can use for future posts and to also meaningfully engage with others whose work I appreciate, whether its your work or others I follow. I will further use this time to reflect back and assess whether I want to stick to a post every 2 weeks or consider monthly post instead or go back to weekly.
In the meantime, I would appreciate hearing from you.
I would like to know how you have so far been experiencing my writings, your thoughts on the frequency of posts, what you would like to see more or less of, or just in general how is life treating you. You may reach me either privately by replying to his email or on Substack direct messages or publicly via clicking on the button below.
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I so appreciate your words and thoughts, Reema, as I, too, experience the challenge of posting and reading/interacting in the way that I intend and hope. I simply dropped off for a while and was just writing for a post on LI that there is a sense of overwhelm even while so much goodness. So I cheer you on and look forward to catching up on your posts I have yet to get back to!
I echo Dawn’s comments Reema. It’s sounds like we’re all feeling a similar way. I too have been unable to keep up and engage with all the wonderful writing that I have subscribed to. Maybe the trick is to have some dedicated time to do it, as you plan to. 🙏