Briefly Inspired (#1)
a new feature for Mondays...
Hello everyone, Happy Monday!
In addition to sharing an original poem or story every Friday, I plan to also send out tiny fun tidbits to help get your/our week off to a great start.
This first Briefly Inspired (previously posted as Monday Funday) post is to let you know that in addition to the Briefly Substack there’s also a Briefly Instagram (brieflyig) and Briefly Spotify (Briefly@Spotify) playlist. My goal with these other socials is to gain more readers by helping more people discover my writing here. Since launching last July with 40 of you, there are now 93 of you! Hooray! So something’s working despite the fact that I’m not really leveraging IG the way they want me to. Algorithms be damned and Zuckerberg can go suck an egg.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand. The IG account shares the cover images of each Friday post (not the poem/story itself) plus a song snippet of my choosing that matches the vibe of the poem/story. A link in the bio sends them to the real Briefly. There’s 35 IG posts with songs now so I decided to make Spotify playlist and added a QR code there to lead curious listeners here. Fingers crossed. But even if they don’t take that extra step, this is for me and all of you too. Enjoy! I’ll keep adding songs as we go.
If you’re reading this via an email, you’re already a subscriber; thank you so much! I’m loving listening to this playlist as I work out, cook, and run errands – it has a modern vibe with some throw backs, classical favs, and short meditations thrown in for good measure. I invite you to give it a listen and hope you enjoy it as much as I do! And perhaps you can share it with some people you love…
Cheers and Happy listening!
