I've moved =)
A friend mentioned recently that I hadn’t written in a while, to which I replied, “I just sent out a missive yesterday.” After a moment, we realized that they hadn’t gotten a Very Important Message I’d sent out a few months ago saying that I was moving from here at sayable.net (hosted on Squarespace) to lorewilbert.com (on Substack).
I made the move for a few reasons:
One, I like the luxury of the option of giving away some pieces for free and letting some be for paying subscribers only. Writing has never been free for me to do and I mostly haven’t minded that, but it is my job and jobs should pay, otherwise we should quit them. Moving to Substack gives you the option of throwing a penny or ten my way.
Two, speaking of paying, I no longer wanted to pay an ever increasing amount of money and skills to both Squarespace and Mailchimp. I pay for Substack, but the way it’s set up is easier for me and my no-math brain. And the backend of Substack is almost no work for me to maintain, so I no longer have to devote design time to MailChimp and Squarespace.
Three, I really like and support what Substack is doing and want to put my money where my mouth is.
What any of this means for you:
Pretty much nothing. If you were subscribed to sayable.net, I migrated your email over to lorewilbert.com as a free subscriber. Still your option if you want to pay. I’m keeping sayable.net up because there’s twenty years of archives here and some of you still delve into them on occasion.
lorewilbert.com is the new S A Y A B L E. Same me, different house.