If time permits for these live ones, not quite sure beyond the titles what's involved, the one that intrigue are: Tues 29/09 - Memoir Writing as an Initiatory Process of Becoming - Katherine E. Standefer - Sense Writing: Starting from Where You Are - Madelyn Kent Wed 30/09: - Spiral Structure for Memoir: Creating Powerful Scenes When Your Story Doesn't Fit the Mold - w/ Allison K Williams - Hooked from the Start: Crafting a Captivating First Page - w/ April Dávila Of the recorded ones that I just noticed are available to watch now...: - Writing a 100 word Tiny Love Story (aka the NYT Tiny Love Stories) - Amy Paturel (She/Her) - All the Different Ways to Share Your Story Ann Kroeker - How to Use Substack to Share Personal Writing and Grow a Following - Erin Shetron (She/Her)

Re. How to use SS: Watched recording Key points I noted: - As Tara also highlighted, it’s key to get into the action of your creation vs. continuously wade in the pre-contemplation/contemplation stages. They suggest to: - Consider SS a creative gym - build your muscle and see what emerges vs. getting stuck on what to write about, niche etc if you don’t know - Show up consistently - no matter your mood or perfectionist type & you’ll surprise yourself at how much better you get at creating - View the downside of getting stuck & not publishing relatively regularly as what happens to your momentum, creative tone vs. impact on subscriber count - Commit to yourself on regularity & as we can’t always be consistent, allow some breathing room for those moments etc - Reflect on how much energy each type of SS posting takes to create - so can see what types of posts can be created on low energy days Additionally: - Benefits of growing a personal following with an authentic voice, people give you ideas /what they would love to read by you in comments organically - You don’t have to respond to all the comments & feel ok about it - energy conservation - You can be on SS as yourself, it can lead to unexpected opportunities/offerings and be expansive - Everyones journey is different, SS is a great place to start, readers are welcoming

@Tara-Nicholle Kirke Somehow, my SRD has gone down a different route with the theme of connection to how when I was younger, my parents relocated us to Delhi for 4 years, which back then was quite a shock. So I took a stab at my moment in vivid sensory detail...my memory is one of me driving with my mother, who is navigating a traffic jam and I'm thinking we were going to get crushed and shouting out at my mother. The word count of my SRD preceding the memory is 369 words, and my memory section is 201 words, which i feel is quite a lot, though I note you said to aim for ~400 words. - Given my SRD is 570 words in total, is 200 too little? - Tomorrow, I aim to write about why this moment matters (Ari's got Mon-Tues off as it's Malaysian Independence tomorrow, and day after they have a school teacher training day!) . And I'm thinking this is where I bring in the link to connection, and should be closer to the suggested ~400 words. - Full disclosure: I haven't quite worked the connection link out as yet as I'm weirdly writing without an outline, just going with what comes to me!

@Tara-Nicholle Kirke - when are you thinking to start the next cycle please? For this cycle, I'm 4 days away from publishing an article, as yesterday night I got to doing the SRD (Day 25) - it's gone a bit off piste but there's still a link to connection, need to work my vivid moment in today!

@Tara-Nicholle Kirke Thanks for clarifying on the timing - I appreciate the mid-September thinking. I'm up for daily Affirmations!

My article is not making tracks but will get it moving tomorrow. On the upside, I wrote a comment in response to an article and had an exchange with the author!

Thank you @Joy Lehman, it was and felt easier than writing a note from scratch. Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I am spending quite some time reading articles to restack, and in the process broadening and clarifying perspectives simultaneously. Seriously, it's quite a trip.