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Ride My Passion Train
I’m Mostly Free
For zero dollars, anyone can create a profile on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, or YouTube and consume endless videos, memes, photos, opinions, personal stories, and celebrity intrigue.
They have no paywall.
You are the product. You allow them to learn everything about you in real-time, and in exchange for giving up your privacy and tolerating an occasional targeted ad, you get to vegetate on free content until the cows come home.
Why on earth would anyone pay a monthly fee to receive a weekly or monthly newsletter, a series of short stories, an original song, or a video, when so much content is offered free of charge?
What makes me so special?
Why should someone pay to read my stories, or hear me sing, or see me dance? (Hint: My writing is worth something; I’d have to pay members to watch me sing and dance.)
Is my writing so compelling that someone other than my best friend would pay every month to read it?
The answer is maybe….and that’s because I’m beginning to perfect the art of the tease.
I have found three general categories of writing that are intriguing, seem to pull readers in, and hold them:
