This Sunday! January 21 at 2 pm CT | Zoom | 45 minutes Replay available Zoom link below *All Sunday workshops will be at this time. Apologies to football fans, especially david roberts. Some of us can’t help but get a tinge of jealousy when someone says, “My post went viral and…” Others respond with disdain because writing with “going viral” in mind is silly at best and shameful and/or selling out and/or unartistic at worst.
What I would be so grateful for would be help getting my essay contest widely seen. There's $12,000 in prize money, it is that important to me to get entrees to deal with this unworkable world -- what my Substack is all about -- but my skills here on Substack are shabby and my time is tight. Is there anyone I can pay to guide me?
ESSAY CONTEST with Cash Prizes!
It’s January 1, 2050. How, in 2024, did we pull off saving the world?
I had a post unexpectedly go viral has a little over 1k likes and 50k views (and i only sent it to 3k subscribers). I'd love to know what it was that made it go viral because I didn't do anything different really than what I normally do except it was longer than other ones. I was surprised how much it connected with people.
What I would be so grateful for would be help getting my essay contest widely seen. There's $12,000 in prize money, it is that important to me to get entrees to deal with this unworkable world -- what my Substack is all about -- but my skills here on Substack are shabby and my time is tight. Is there anyone I can pay to guide me?
ESSAY CONTEST with Cash Prizes!
It’s January 1, 2050. How, in 2024, did we pull off saving the world?
https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/an-essay-contest-its-january-1-2050
I had a post unexpectedly go viral has a little over 1k likes and 50k views (and i only sent it to 3k subscribers). I'd love to know what it was that made it go viral because I didn't do anything different really than what I normally do except it was longer than other ones. I was surprised how much it connected with people.
That's huge, Kirsten!! Congratulations!
TY! :-)
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Wow, that's incredible! congratulations! Are you saying you gained 1.15k NEW subscribers from that viral post?
Well, I’m not saying at the stats are saying it :-)
Will you link to the post too? So great! Congrats!
https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstenpowers/p/the-way-we-live-in-the-united-states?r=180ck&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Deeply connected with that post even though I can't afford to go to Italy, let alone buy land there. It had me daydreaming about cutting and running.
That’s helpful! I’m trying to figure out all the factors.
Oh, I read that post!! It's an amazing post and I shared it with my husband and I can 100% see why it went as viral as it did. Amazing post.
Anybody want to speculate about why, especially cause it's long? It would be good to have some insight into that.
Jeannine has the answer: length matters way less than serious quality.
It was fine writing but it was it so much better than a lot of other writing that would account for such an outstanding result?
Which one was it? Will you share the link?
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Sounds like fun!
Can’t wait!