Technically July Call of Subscriber Writing
It’s time for the next call for subscriber writing. Please see here for details and make sure to email me at fredrik.deboer@gmail.com if you do submit to make my life easier. Deadline for this month is Thursday, August 4th! PLEASE use the following format in your submission:
Your Preferred Name, Your Piece of Writing's Title with Hyperlink
one-sentence synopsis of your piece
That really makes my life much easier. If I messed up previously and promised to include your entry in a later edition, please email to remind me! If you submitted something before the submission period began, submit it again! And if you don’t use the fredrik.deboer@gmail.com address, I have no sympathy if I fail to include you. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Non-subscribers, if you want to take advantage of this forum to share your work, you know what to do.
Did you know GMAIL has built in functionality that allows you to give people different email addresses that will still land in your inbox? No further action needed other than providing them the email you want them to use.
If you append a plus ("+") sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address.
For example, if your email is fredrik.deboer@gmail.com, you could simply ask people to send mail to fredrik.deboer+SubscriberWritingJuly@gmail.com or fredrik.deboer+DefundPolice@gmail.com and you'll get those emails.
The value in being able to manipulate your email address is:
1. You can create filters to automatically handle them (archive, label, forward, delete).
2. With or without auto-filtering, you can search on the address to pull up all the mails that landed - "to:SubscriberWritingJuly".
As a wider benefit, you can also use this when you provide an email anywhere that will generate mail you want separated from your main mail feed:
"+donation" when you give money. Filter to auto-delete.
"+VIP" when you give your email to someone you never want to hear from again. Filter to auto-archive
"+substack" when you sign up for newsletters. Filter mails out of the inbox to a "newsletter" label.
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but isn't Thursday August 3rd?