sorry if this is a dumb question but for ur Kofi do these fics stay forever or do they get like refreshed like a story and is removed after a few weeks? sorry idk how this works 😭😅

no worries at all and not a dumb question!!! everything i put up there should be accessible forever while a person is a monthly supporter - any active subscriptions can access the gallery posts and view the descriptions of those posts where the links to the documents are. i have not and do not plan to take them down or rotate them out.

and honestly, like. if you want. become a monthly supporter and then cancel the subscription and you'll have a full month before you lose access to all the posts. and then while you have access, like. bookmark the links on your browser. you'll lose access to the post where the links are, but you won't literally lose access to the link itself if you save it, so do that and then if you ever want to read the fics in the future you can do it

A little over a year ago, I started a technical blog. If I struggled to figure out how to get some software to work or I wanted to talk about a new pet project I built, I'd write about it in my blog.This past May, I decided to hire a freelance editor. Not a permanent arrangement, just a one-time gig to read my blog archives, tell me the bad patterns in my writing, and suggest improvements. It ended up making a substantial difference in my writing style, which led to a growth of my audience by over 450x.Why hire an editor?When you publish a blog post and it flops, you don't get much feedback about why it was unsuccessful. To date, none of my readers have written me to say, "Hey, you had great ideas in that post, but I never read them because your repetitive sentence structure lost my attention, and I closed the tab." An editor actually can give you that kind of feedback.An editor obviously isn't going to make thousands of readers flock to your site, but what they can do is eliminate barriers that are preventing people from engaging with your content. And unless you're a very experienced writer, you probably are putting up barriers that are making it difficult for users to connect with your writing. I feel like my writing is pretty strong, but my editor identified several real mistakes I had no idea I was making.Beyond just blogging, writing is a highly transferable skill. Good writing skills can be extremely valuable to an entrepreneur in many different contexts. Improvements in blog writing will carry over into communications with potential customers or investors.EffectsBelow I've shared some of my blog stats and facts so you can see how much of a difference hiring an editor made for my blog.AchievementsOf the three articles I wrote after working with my editor, two made it to the front page of Hacker News. One of them reached the #1 spot.One of my posts reached the #1 spot of all time in both /r/siacoin and /r/cryptocurrency.I sold my first ever banner ad, yielding $860 in revenue for JulyBy ArticleThe difference is very clear if you compare the unique pageviews for the three articles I published before working with an editor to the three that I published after.Before working with an editorArticleReaders (First 24 hours)Readers (First 30 days)"Automated Prosper Investing with ProsperBot"2195"Adventures in Outsourcing: Cooking with TaskRabbit"1588"Building a Homelab VM Server"4141,103After working with an editorArticleReaders (First 24 hours)Readers (First 30 days)"A Beginner’s Guide to Mining Siacoin"70927,871"How I Stole Your Siacoin"38,80862,425"GreenPiThumb: A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot"27,90838,514 (and counting)By MonthI started working with the editor in mid-may. You can see from the numbers that the blog grew 22x in May, another 20x in June, for a total of 450x over two months.MonthUnique visitorsGrowth (one month)Growth (two months)April 2017251——May 20175,5722,119% / 22x—June 2017113,1211,930% / 20x44,968% / 450xSuggestions for working with editorsIf you're a blogger and are considering hiring an editor, here are some recommendations based on my experience:Pay for qualityIf you post to a freelancing site like Upwork, you will invariably receive cheap offers from people willing to take any job they can get, regardless of their ability to deliver results. Do not be tempted to save money by hiring a cut-rate editor.If you go to the trouble of hiring someone to critique your writing, hire an expert who can give you excellent guidance. If you needed surgery, would you hire the cheapest person to approach you with a scalpel? An investment in expert feedback on your writing will pay dividends for a long time, so invest well.Screen carefullyFreelancer sites show you ratings and reviews of potential freelancers from their past clients. Read through these reviews to see if the editor has the qualities that are important to you. Prefer applicants who have completed at least 10 previous jobs with a success rate of 90% or higher. The editor I hired has a success rate of 99% and 39 completed jobs.Require applicants to submit a cover letter, and scrutinize it carefully. For an editor, it's essentially a sample of their work. Did they send you a form letter that they blast out to everyone? Or did they customize it to address the areas where you need help? The grammar in their cover letter should be impeccable, and the wording should be clear and easy to understand.Look for subject matter familiarityFind an editor who can understand and appreciate your writing. They don't have to have the same level of expertise that you do, but they should have familiarity with the subject on par with your potential audience — someone who might read your blog even if you weren't paying them.If you have a blog about pop music, you don't need to hire a professional music critic, but you should look for someone with enough appreciation for music to understand your terminology and references.Catch the easy stuff yourselfYou're paying a premium for an expert's time, so there's no sense in squandering that time on simple mistakes you could identify yourself. Before sending your writing to an editor, run it through a tool like Grammarly or Microsoft Word to catch spelling and grammatical errors.Part of your proofreading process should also be reading your posts aloud. My editor encouraged me to do this, and I was amazed at how effectively it catches careless errors and unnatural wording.Don't take it personallyYour editor is critiquing your writing, not you. If your writing is very personal, the two can feel one and the same, but you'll get the most out of your editor's notes if you can separate yourself from your writing and approach their feedback without defensiveness or ego.You don't have to accept every noteNotwithstanding the previous suggestion, remember that it's ultimately your writing, and you have to decide what feedback to accept and decline.There have been several instances where my editor suggested a change that I recognize is clearer or more eloquent, but it doesn't sound like my voice. In those cases, I try to rewrite the passage to move closer to the suggestion. But occasionally, I'll wrestle with the note and reach the conclusion that what I wrote is what I want.Make a checklistEvery time I complete the first draft of a new blog post, I check my editor's notes on the last article she reviewed. For mistakes I find myself repeating, I keep a separate checklist that I run through at the end of my writing process.I adapted this from a more detailed post on my blog that includes a lot more details like traffic graphs and the full, raw feedback that my editor gave me. I welcome your feedback or questions in either spot.