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Memoir Nation hosts accountability groups every Thursday and Sunday, and it’s not infrequent that the subject of Substack comes up in the group. Writers love it for the community, for the connection, and because it’s a public place to post long-form work and to engage with serious readers. It exists on a plane separate from its toxic social media counterparts—for now anyway.
Memoirists can and should use Substack as a way to build their author platform. Just in case anyone’s not familiar with that term, it’s a simple idea but a complex and arduous process. Building a platform means doing a whole bunch of stuff—namely creating content—that elevates your visibility among the people you want to be your audience.
In practice, building a platform looks like: 1) posting on Substack and getting your work published where you can; 2) creating video content; 3) creating audio content; 4) doing social media. There are many ways an author can build their platform, but the question is what’s the best way for a memoirist to do so?
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