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This website is divided into Collections.
Here’s an example of what you’ll see on every article & podcast episode within this website:
Collection: The Beat Philosopher
Format: Essay
Author: Melissa Nadia Viviana
Date: November 24, 2024
Tier: Public
Tags: Plato, Ideal Societies, Evolution, Karl Popper
There are nearly twenty collections mapped out so far.
Each Collection hosts a specific theme that the work embodies.
The Format, on the other hand, will tell you whether it’s:
an aphorism; poetry
a lengthy essay
a thread
or a podcast transcript
Some collections have the same theme, but different formats.
For example, the collection: Resist Rebel Revolt contains essays on Activism. Generally these are thoughtful, long-form essays.
But because there’s a very exhausting news cycle spitting out political sensationalism on a daily basis, there’s some writing I’ve done that just doesn’t have time to grow into a lengthy essay.
Sometimes these are just bits and pieces––fragments, really––of my reactions to the daily news. Tidbits like these are often called “aphorisms.”
So I created a collection called All The News That’s Fit To Write––which are aphorisms and fragments about politics, current events, news, and social concerns.
If these bits and pieces grow, they might one day become an essay for Resist Rebel Revolt down the road.
Cross-Posting
Sometimes I weave together various themes in a single body of work: for example, one of my recent essays talked about Nietzsche, grief, and election propaganda in a single essay.
Let’s be real, that’s the way our minds work!
The interdependency between subjects is ever-present. So if two Collections are in a single essay, then the Collection label will have a “cross-post” line.
Collection: The Beat Philosopher
Cross-Post: Resist Rebel Revolt
Format: Essay
Author: Melissa Nadia Viviana
Date: March 4, 2024
Tier: Public
Tags: Grief, Propaganda, Nietzsche
That way a reader not interested in philosophy, but interested in activism knows that there might be some insight about the election hidden within this essay on Nietzsche.
One last aspect of the website are the “Membership Tiers.”
Believe it or not, the benefit of memberships aren’t only that they offer monetary benefit for the writer. They’re also for intimacy’s sake.
The best thing about creating exclusive content for paid subscribers is that putting writing behind a paywall allows you to feel safer and more honest with your readers.
This is like having a group therapy session: yes, it’s technically not a private session - you’re still sharing these intimate stories with strangers. But the things you share with a small group will always be more honest than the things you might say on a world stage.
So the secret benefit of a paywall is intimacy.
To help facilitate this, I created two types of memberships on my website:
a free membership & a paid membership.
You see, they’re both behind a “paywall,” technically.
As a free member, you’ll still have to sign in to view exclusive articles and courses. If you share them on social media, the people who click on the links will have to create an account before they can see the content.
However, there will be public articles, for those who aren’t members. So the tiers will look something like this:
Public Articles - visible to everybody
Free Membership - exclusive free members content
Paid Membership - exclusive premium members content
The question you might be asking is: are there different subscriptions for different collections?
No. I don’t know what writing you’re interested in reading. And maybe you don’t even know.
One paid membership gets access to 100% of everything on the website.
Feel free to explore the Collections Directories and find something that resonates—and ignore the rest!
For those subscribed via email—or who signed up for one of my membership tiers—I’ll be sending just one digest a week of all new articles that have been added to the Collections.
Then you get to decide what interests you. And I won’t have to spam you for every post I make. (For those who are familiar with Substack, you know how overwhelming this can get).
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