(WHAT if…) My entire Substack got deleted!

A thought exercise.

Continuing a conversation that started with

Lucy Werner

on Notes. Lucy’s substack actually got wiped but she’s being such a champ about it!

I joked that sometimes I wished my substack got wiped, and

Zsofi Lang

and

RAJ KAUR

asked what I would do differently, and I thought that is a great question, and maybe a valuable one.

Maybe something to tackle in the Next Creative Sprint.

In 4 years this substack has gathered 8000+ free subscribers and a couple of hundred paid subscribers.

What have I Learned? What mistakes have I made? What steps would I take if all this went away or if I was starting over? And what are the flukes that took place that we might try to recreate?

Is this something you would like to learn as a paid subscribers?

Every day I send out a daily prompt to help you stretch your creative muscles & help you develop a bias for creative action.

Then once a month, I do what’s called a Creative Sprint only for members, this chains prompts over five days with a purpose to help you achieve certain creative outcomes — like how we changed our Money Story, last month.

You’ll Learn skills, master tools, shift mindsets.

What would you like to work on in our next Creative Sprint? here are the choices…

Start a Bestselling Substack

I’ll talk about what’s working so far, where I got lucky, the mistakes I made, and steps I would do if I had to start over, and some principles to think about when building your own best selling Substack.

Illustrator, Attract Publishers

I’ll walk you through a process I take to discover the intersection between what publishers want and what I’m passionate about making, if you do the process you’ll walk away with a clear idea of what to create for a successful portfolio that is 100% aligned to your creative spirit.

Illustrator, Create an Offer

If you want to get hired, you need to be super clear about what you want to be hired for, and the unique proposition you are making to your potential clients at every touchpoint. Learn how to show clients exactly what they’re going to get when they hire you, by being consistent across all touchpoints.

My specialty has been distilling big ideas into small actionable packages:

Any of these ideas alone would make for a $200-$300 course, but for $20 you can jump in and vote and be part of the next Creative Sprint, or for just $100 you get 12 Creative Sprints where we work through topics like these each month!

If you act really fast, you might still get in at a reduced price, (but it goes back to normal really soon!)