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Feb 18Liked by The Man Behind the Screen

Success is measured differently for different people. I started my substack, trying to figure out what I wanted to write. Is success measured with millions of people reading what you write, or is it measured in 185 people who faithfully read week after week?

I only knew I wanted to write and slowly build the world I wanted to share. In the last year, I've also made friends and enjoyed their writing.

The Librarian is an excellent writer. He deserves his accolades.

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Feb 18Liked by The Man Behind the Screen

Librarian is brilliant, I love and read his substack voraciously, this was an awesome post and congrats on hitting 150 subscribers, you've earned them all. I love your work and am very happy for your successes thus far.

Success is a strange thing, built on the back of a 100 failures I think, and on innumerable difficulties such as sorrow, anxieties, depressions, collapses, failures, mistakes and all the rest and often times many quit before they taste its nector. You've a positive attitude that will likely help to move you far ahead of a great many, and I think and hope will mean that you someday meet with the dazzling success your prose and efforts deserve so richly.

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I'm a fan of the librarian. My own numbers have been comparatively anemic, but he has been very supportive and restacks my work occasionally. While my subscriber growth is not a sign of traditional success, quite a few more successful substackers appreciate my work, and that is an honor. A lot of my subs have stuck with me a long time too, which is humbling.

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