October greetings, Fictionistas!
Since we’re a worldwide operation, we won’t assume everyone is enjoying autumn leaves, crisp air, and pumpkin spice lattes right now. But they’re seasonal cliches, so we’ll just throw them in for atmosphere. Speaking of atmosphere, our next virtual meetup date is secured, and it comes dangerously close to Halloween, which means we’re requesting expecting demanding that everyone in attendance come dressed for the occasion.
Kidding. There’s nothing mandatory about these meetups, including attendance, but we do hope to have many of your happy faces, ears, and voices with us for this month’s hangout. Come as you are! If that means you have whiskers on your face or a fake axe through your head, so be it!
We’ll also be having a totally mature conversation and welcome your input on the agenda. 😉
One item we’d like to cover is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)1, which kicks off November 1st.
Who’s in it?
Who’s not?
How (if at all) will participants use their Substack to champion their new works in progress?
If you have any other thoughts for discussion topics, or Substack mysteries you’d like solved (the new app layout … what????), please drop us a note in the comments. We’ll get to as many topics as we can in an hour.
You want the meeting date details, don’t you?
Monday October 30th | 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET
As always, we understand that this time will not work for everyone, but there will be a recording and recap post available for those who can’t attend live.
We’ll send the meeting link out in a few weeks.
Until then, enjoy October—however you enjoy it—in your part of the world!
Cheers,
Thanks for the info, Meg- though I'm not sure I will be there, it was suggested during the europe meetup hosted by Simon Jones that I forward this comment on an interesting topic for the next meeting: thus, if schedule permits and anyone is interested,the topic would be: 'how can Substack fiction work better with the established world of fiction markets, both online and in print, so that writers from both worlds can more successfully interact and see their submissions flourish?'
I say this noting from experience that many traditional markets do not allow submissions of stories that have been published before, even in Substack, and this is a major problem for posting new fiction on Substack if you also want to make a larger go of it. It means one is constantly stuck deciding whether to publish here or submit into what is usually going to be a rejection, owing to the sheer scale of the competition. I would be very interested in proactiev ideas and what anyone else thinks, of this issue, either at this meeting or a future one.
See you... scare! Wuahaha! 🎃