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If You're Just Starting On Substack, Don't Make The Same Dumb Mistake I Did
Same applies if you're starting a newsletter anywhere, really.
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Linda Caroll
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My 5 Little Rules For Growing Substack To The Moon Without Being Pitchy
Most of the "advice" didn't work for me so I invented my own little rules and they're kind of right-brain but maybe you'll find this helpful
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Linda Caroll
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Please Fix Your Substack Welcome Letter
Here's what you're doing wrong
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Linda Caroll
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The Best Writing Tip I've Ever Read
It was just a note William Zinsser scrawled in the margin of a student's essay but it poked my greatest fear as a writer
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Linda Caroll
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The Best Way To Use Substack Tags
If you want to get more views and find more readers, tags can really help but you need to know how they work and it might not be the way you think!
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Linda Caroll
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The Problem With Both Medium And Substack Isn't The Platform
A plate of cookies might make you rethink your strategy on writing platforms
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Linda Caroll
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The Oldest Rule Of Compelling Writing
Aristotle taught it. Hemingway used it. Matthew McConaughey still does.
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Linda Caroll
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Tips For Your Substack Home Page
A few tips that will help you get more people to stick around to check out your writing instead of looking and leaving
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Linda Caroll
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A New Way To Approach Notes?
Social media has always been my Achille's Heel but I came up a new approach and it's a little more effort but I'm going to try it and here's why
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Linda Caroll
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Which is better, Medium or Substack?
Every week at least one reader asks me this question. So here's the difference between the platforms, and the one mistake too many writers make
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Linda Caroll
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The 5 Biggest Writing Mistakes According To A New York Literary Agent
Plus, how to succeed as a writer in a world of AI
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Linda Caroll
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9.7K Substackers Made AI Slop Go Viral
If any writing community is to survive the onslaught of AI we need to do better as readers too, not just as writers.
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Linda Caroll
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