Discovery Call
James Bailey
James Bailey
Agenda
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Substack Review
Session Notes
Suggestions for Substack
- Restructure your About page, and create a pinned post for On Money and Meaning that goes into greater detail about your background and establishes credibility.
- Move personal details to their own section, and put the most important info for readers at the top (what it is and why they should subscribe).
- Delete your two inactive publications.
- Move the plug for An Audience of Two from a link on your navbar to your a sub-section of your About page.
Writing Goals
- Help people live more meaningful lives
- Biweekly publishing
- Write with a touching emotional component that makes an impact
Writing Process
- Inspired by reading and personal development work
- Parables, self-help books, spirituality, sports stories
- The concept is easy, even some of the connections, but the first draft is always hard
- Re-reading and revising as you go
- It will never be done because it can always be better. You just have to decide it’s done.
- See ”The Finisher’s Paradox” by David Kadavy
- Constraints, like a publishing schedule, can help you finish and move on to the next project.
Suggestion:
- Free write the “down draft” without attaching to or editing any part of it.
- Create a reverse outline.
- After you have at least one full draft and a reverse outline, start revising.
(See “Create No Darlings, Kill No Darlings”)