The Chronicles of Substack, Episode 3
Rick Retro’s Realm, Behind the Scenes #24: The Chronicles of Substack, Episode 3 – “The Voyage of the Apostrophe Treader”.
This will be my 115th Rick Retro post, counting only the ones I’m uploading to Substack. As of this writing, I’ve got 65 up already, so I’m over halfway there. With 50 still to go, 42 of those are Retro Reviews which aren’t quick to put up. At least I think not. Maybe most of the difficult parts, like links, can be put in a template to speed up the process. And itʼs also a slog when youʼre a perfectionist and suddenly notice that in the transfer to Substack, ugly apostrophes as rendered in your writing app donʼt automatically convert to the nice-looking ones that Substack uses normally. Itʼs tedious to even try to spot them all, let alone change them. But I have a checklist and will fix all the posts eventually.
The very first Retro Review is now on Substack, fully updated to the new format, including handy links to use if you forget what a particular rating or emoji means. I think you will find that the reviews look better in Substack than they did in this text group and that the links will be useful to you also. Let me know what you think after checking it out:
Youʼre still on schedule to receive the first Retro Review of the Dark Whimsy Favorites on Monday. Iʼm hoping to have every other post up on Substack by then too, and then go back to having fun when I “work” for yʼall!
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Originally posted to text group 2025-02-08
Last updated 2025-02-10