Monday Muse #16

You want to send me a note? Have a chat? This is exciting...

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I didn’t manage to send out my usual Friday post last week, I had a last minute writing gig, with a very tight deadline, and time slipped away and my half finished post never got posted!

It was mostly about joining me on Substack Notes, have you been over there yet? It’s very good.

Notes is a new space on Substack for us to share links, short posts, quotes, photos, and more. I plan to use it for things that don’t fit in the newsletter, like work-in-progress or quick questions. I’m also going to enable chats where we can do some impromptu writing sessions over on there.

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How to join

Head to substack.com/notes or find the “Notes” tab in the Substack app. As a subscriber to The Author's Guide to... you’ll automatically see my notes. Feel free to like, reply, or share them around!

I’m discussing this in today’s content idea - how to use short bursts of content to create community. And there’s also your weekly drop of trending sounds, social media news that you can use which brings me on to…

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