{"id":1002,"date":"2025-08-07T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:33:09","slug":"the-substack-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2025\/08\/07\/the-substack-route\/","title":{"rendered":"The Substack Route"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have recently begun writing articles on Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Those articles are much like the articles I write here, but they have a wider, built-in audience.\u00a0 I have never made the effort to drum up readership here, and as a result, this site is mostly a forgotten breadcrumb on the Internet.<\/p>\n

This is not a complaint.\u00a0 When I first began the Music For A New Age<\/a> web site, my main purpose in doing so was to learn and implement HTML.\u00a0 As the years passed, the site morphed into what is seen today:\u00a0 A WordPress blog site.<\/p>\n

Using the site as a “sandbox” has allowed me to employ it as a development platform.\u00a0 I’ve created a “pseudo-forum” as a proof-of-concept (which was not accepted by my then-employer), a storage mechanism for files and data I could access anywhere an Internet connection existed, an exploration of cascading style sheets (CSS), which is now the landing page at https:\/\/www.mfna.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My Substack<\/a> is where I am actively developing my writing skills.\u00a0 In my opinion, the writing tools are less flexible than are WordPress’s, but the main point of my doing so is that I get readers without having to do any promotion.\u00a0 Thus, I can improve my writing, and the feedback I receive helps me do so.<\/p>\n

There is a bit of a concern I have.\u00a0 Substack has numerous categories one can scroll through, search, and “silo” articles.\u00a0 I have not found a way to categorize my articles there as I can here.\u00a0 My as-yet-unproven sense is that authors who stick to a specific category get more readers.\u00a0 One of the writers I follow, Julie Kelly,<\/a> an investigative reporter, writes exclusively about politics.\u00a0 I have neither the expertise nor the discipline to always write on a single topic.\u00a0 I have multiple interests, and write about what I know, what I’ve seen, what I’ve experienced and what I I wish for.<\/p>\n

So, my Substack isn’t replacing this site<\/a>.\u00a0 In the long run, perhaps it will make my writing here better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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