Well, let’s just say this caused me to re-think some things. I assume this means the other readers in this thread will plot your imminent demise, LSL. Prepare yourself.
Y’all may have noticed in another thread that I started a Substack (SS), one about general interest stuff. Substack bills itself as a service for authors, allowing them to build an audience and monetize them via subscriptions, ala Patreon - your free subs get some stuff, your paying subs get more stuff, etc. And the copyright issues are easily resolved - the author retains all copyrights.
But it’s more than that - I’m interviewing people, outlining the book (as I have been thinking of this since October), writing it (and writing separate documents almost as large as the first one with ideas, notes, interview questions, etc). So while the medium for telling this story will change (sorry), I’m still not 100% sure what direction it will take… but I am leaning towards a serialized Substack, one where the first 5, 10 entries are free, and then $x to access the rest.
Regardless, I’m practicing on the general interest newsletter so I can get enough experience with SS as to do a better job on the MDS story. And if you want to know my secret dream for this, I would love for it to keep getting optioned, but never made. Or, if made, a 10-part Netflix series would do the trick.
TLDR: LSLGuy killed this thread. Stone him!