This question seems hotly debated (okay, maybe lukewarmly) between online experts like Jane Friedman, Quora, and others. The answer comes down to what’s important to the writer of said blog or newsletter.
For me, I thought I’d try to ease into a monthly newsletter format. I sent out my first newsletter at the end of July. Honestly, it was kind of scary to do so, as are all first times (for me).
An area that was easy and fun to talk about was a June trip to Scotland and Ireland. We had adventures in a tiny stick-shift car driving on the left side of the road. Soon, we returned to the US, and the horrendous news on TV left me deflated.
A newsletter I read helped me re-center myself. The writer had reposted “A Letter to a Young Activist in Troubled Times.”
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
Dr. Clarrissa Pinkola Estés
That quote gave me hope, which I wrote about as a topic in the newsletter. And those are the kinds of subjects that are important to me. How do we cultivate hope and resilience in our life.
I ended with an update about my book with the question: “What Do An Elephant and I Have in Common?”
No hints on the answer. You have to read the newsletter 😉
August’s newsletter arrives on the fourth Saturday of the month. There’ll be another question having to do with Skittles, but you need to sign up for the newsletter.
Sign up above the teal button on the right margin (for laptops). On your mobile device, the sign-up shows at the bottom of the page. Thank you, and I hope to share a bit of time with you via the newsletter.
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Newsletters are the new blogs. Blogging used to be the new–um, I’ve forgotten what. Instagram is the new Twitter, though, and TikTok’s the new everything. However, I’m convinced that by the time I mastered (ha! more like managed the shallowest fringes of) any of them, something else would be the new whatever and I’d be on dry ground again. And somewhere in here, we need to preserve time to write, which was the original purpose of all this platform hopping.
I’ll be interested to hear how the newsletter works for you. If, that is, you end up blogging about it, because honestly I only have just so much time to devote to reading what other people send out. Even you, unfortunately.
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I hear you. We all have only so much bandwidth. I’ll know if the newsletter works out after several months. Thanks for stopping by.
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