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Susan Harley's avatar

Really useful advice, thank you Derek . I especially liked start small, widen and choose something transformative.

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Derek Hughes's avatar

Thanks Susan. Glad it was useful.

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Ral Joseph's avatar

This is just what I needed to read Derek... The knowledge of what you've written here has always been there and in the past 2 months of actively working on Substack I've been able to get myself 3 paid subs and over 1,000 subscribers, but then again I still have this feeling of I'm not doing enough and that's where your article comes in thank you so much sir.

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Derek Hughes's avatar

You’re making great progress Ral - keep it up. Always happy when I’m helping other writers.

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Gunnar Habitz's avatar

Your article comes at the right time for me as I‘m reviewing my pub towards more clarity as well. Thanks for your strategic advice, Derek!

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Derek Hughes's avatar

Good to hear from you Gunnar. Seeking more clarity is always a wise move.

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Bidi Sh's avatar

great post and I learned from it, some of it resonates with my writings, I feel I've gone through some progress since I started, but with the "how, what" I'm still puzzled. I ask my self, do I want to educate or entertain? and I'm more inclined to the first argument and yet, still not clear enough.

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Matej Holy's avatar

This helped so much, Derek. Right from the first point.

I have a strong tendency to write about what I do at my job, but it's not really that interesting to me.

I am going to re-read this a couple more times so that it hits home.

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Derek Hughes's avatar

It took me a while to fully digest all this, but I hope it gives you some good guidance.

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