5 Things I Adore About My Year Doing Substack
A listicle of gratitude to my subscribers and readers. 🌊🔮
It’s been just over a year since I started the innovatively titled enterprise, EmmaTattenbaumFine.Substack.com.
My very handsome, very bald husband said, early last summer, “You could do a Substack like Matt Taibbi does?”
Luke is always reading Matt Taibbi. And I thought, well, he feels he has this personal relationship with the guy. And he gets excited when his writing comes to his inbox. Can you imagine being excited about an email? (An email that wasn’t some explicit & authentic form of “Here’s your money: See attached.”)
I liked this idea. Of occupying the space of the popular kid whom my husband admired.
“What exactly is Substack? Isn’t it kind of a… news thing?”
Luke described Substack to me. And because he’s, understandably, distrustful of mainstream political discourse (heart emoji, eye roll emoji, hands up “what can you do?” emoji), the proselytizing angle he chose was about how Substack was upending journalism. How it was poaching journalists from spaces where they were controlled by censorship.
Essentially, he pitched me Substack as a free speech forum.
(My journalist friend had a slightly different take on it, but this is a puff piece for Substack, WHICH I LOVE, so I shall consider her story “off the record.”)
In my experience creating stuff, a year is just long enough to gingerly begin to exit the honeymoon phase of a project and to ascertain if it’s really resonating with you, or if you’re just basking in the fading golden hour of something shiny and new….
Heading into year two, I’d like to pause for reflection and to say THANK YOU all, for subscribing and for reading, via the well-known medium of the LISTICLE.
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