I'm always finding big and little typos in what I write for Substack after I hit "publish," so I've spent the past two days combing over the scheduled Bad Online English (BOE) posts on Substack—which are part of the free content I offer—as well as the paid content, which currently runs through nouns, verbs, and verb tenses. I won't be able to correct the errors in the Substack posts unless I take along my laptop, which I might or might not do. I don't normally take it with me. (When I'm on the trail, I blog from my phone.)
Through this month and while I'm on my walk, my paid Substack will slowly dole out the rest of its content on verb tenses, then turn to grammatical moods (indicative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, subjunctive, conditional—yes, it's a mood as well as a tense). The free content will be what it's always been: a random non-curriculum focusing mainly on poorly written memes and other erroneous things found online. I have only enough paid content to get through November 14; the walk ends on the 15th, so I'm thinking that I should add one more lesson, to be released on the 17th, to give myself a few days' breathing room, after I return to Seoul, to create enough material to get me through at least the end of the year (my current curriculum calendar runs through August of next year, so there's no shortage of material). My free material, by contrast, is done through the beginning of December.
In November and December, I'll also finally start looking into branching out my various efforts, creating more content that will, I hope, eventually include video work and more dead-tree publications to sell on Shopify and Amazon. The work never ends, thank goodness.
Still to create before I leave: quizzes for my paying subscribers. Well, subscriber—singular. Ideally, I need to make enough quizzes to cover nouns, verbs, verb tenses, and grammatical moods. My lone subscriber, who reports already failing the quizzes for the free section, probably won't even bother with these new quizzes (of which there are already four: one, two, three, four), but I'm designing this curriculum with an eye to the future in the hope that there will eventually be more subscribers.
And now—time for a walk while it's not raining (according to the weather site).
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