SPAWN Office Hours #19
Pirate hours now! Get over here with your questions and support. Thursday 6pm-7pm BST and 7-8pm CET.
Welcome to SPAWN, Substack Pirate After Work Network. We’re here on Thursdays 6pm BST UK, 7pm CET. For those who are unable to join live, post a question out of hours and tick the box to have it on Notes so you get more chances for an answer.
If you’re here for the first time introduce yourself. Ideally, answer questions from others and engage with newcomers and veteran stackers.
I’ll start us off with a few questions/tasks for today’s SPAWN:
1). Share a moment when someone close to you acknowledged you as a writer, artist, musician, or anything else you identify with.
2). Tell us about that moment and how significant it was to you and in what way.
3). Have you written a post about this moment? Why?/Why not?
4) What would you like to do next week on our 20th SPAWN session?
SPAWN is Office Hours and hang out with
and our lovely crew. We’ll talk all things Substack that we love or don’t understand. The floor is always open to your questions.Thursday 4 July
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New Delhi IST 10:30pm-11:30pm
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We are live for an hour and many stay for longer. Mostly, we chat about writing and Substacking; we celebrate each other’s successes and find new readers and subscribers in the process. Before we go on to this week’s SPAWN here’s what we did last week and make sure you check the comments as there are some useful resources in there:
Time zones differ and our community is all over the world so naturally comments spill outside the live hour. You’re welcome to join pre or after hours. We have novel, short story, poetry, non-fiction and travel writers, podcasters, youtubers and journalists. Between us, we solve most questions.
I invite you to share your questions and achievements.
This session is about sharing what you know about writing or Substack, asking questions and socialising with others. Everyone’s welcome to join the conversation. Politeness and kindness are our rules. Offer advice if you can, no guesswork and no spammers. We haven’t had anyone’s comments left unanswered so far. Our readers and SPAWN are a supportive community and many of us support one another outside this weekly event.
Tip: Tell someone you appreciate them as a writer/musician/artist.
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I don't always get a chance to answer my own questions but will do so today.
1). Share a moment when someone close to you acknowledged you as a writer, artist, musician, or anything else you identify with.
The day my mum said to my teenager that I'm a poet!
2). Tell us about that moment and how significant it was to you and in what way.
I don't know how to explain it. It felt special hearing that my own mum recognised me as a poet... I've been writing for years. That acknowledgement meant the world.
3). Have you written a post about this moment? Why?/Why not?
Not yet. I should though. Not to post it but to have it as a memory as it was an empowering moment.
4) What would you like to do next week on our 20th SPAWN session?
You tell me!
Thank you Rod for your restack!