How to Build Your Email List from Zero
The Weekend Review #002.
Well, we’ve made it to the end of another week!
I hope you had a productive week and got some work done on your writing this week!
I’m excited about what I have to share with you this weekend!
Laugh of the Week
Is this a problem with getting older?
Maybe - maybe not.
But whenever I think of an idea, I have to make a note of it somehow, or I will forget what I wanted to say - and how I wanted to say it.
Do you have this same problem? How do you capture ideas?
Article of the Week
This week’s “Article of the Week” is a fantastic reminder by Tom Kuegler. While writing/blogging can sometimes feel complicated, Tom reminds us that it’s pretty simple.
Video of the Week
This week’s video is an interview Substack did with Abigail Koffler back in 2020 about building a newsletter email list from zero. The video is a bit longer, but there's a lot of useful information in here.
Quote of the Week
“In writing. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.” - C.S. Lewis
I think so too!
Thanks for the sharing the video! Even though it's from a few years ago, I think most of it holds up!