I have a habit of looking over what I've written after I've published it.
If I notice a stylistic problem, I'll correct it.
If I think of a substantive change, I'll insert it in the text and explicitly note it as an update.
While post-publication corrections might be fine for a blog or Facebook post, I'm realizing it's not so good for a newsletter. Subscribers might rely on the email version – and might never see the update on the web.
So I intend to shift my habitual post-publication check to a final pre-publication check.
I could always look at the published version again. But I need to stop using post-publication re-reading as an opportunity for a final edit.
Have you edited any of your newsletters after publication?
How have you handled updates to your published newsletters?
I wrote about all of those public opinion polls showing huge numbers of voters not trusting the election results yet at the same time telling pollsters that they believed *their own* vote was counted correctly. I thought that this showed that most people might not be that sincere in their belief that the election was stolen and might not believe strongly enough to act on it.
This was before the Capitol attack.
After that happened, I felt like maybe I had downplayed the threat that the country faces from some of these extremist groups by some of the language I used in the post. So, rather than edit the text, I wrote a response to myself through another post. I also added a "disclaimer" to the top of the first post much like you'd see a publication like the New York Times do when they make a correction or update to one of their stories.
Not sure if that was the right way to go, but I just followed what I had seen reputable news orgs do. Here is the first post: https://americanagreement.substack.com/p/questioning-the-elections-legitimacy
I tried to edit something and it said Post out of date? It hasn't been a week yet. What does this mean?