Why Me? Why Now?
I'm a hypocrite. Either that or I'm allowed to change my mind.
For years, I’ve railed against Substack.
It killed me to watch extremely talented writers who I either knew personally or by byline begging for $5 a month. These were people who were once paid $5 a word (if they were lucky) but at the very least something and now they were, bag in hand, asking strangers for money.
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