The Lone Prairie Blog has existed on various platforms since 2000. It has been on Substack since 2021. It is generalist in nature and covers a variety of topics.
About The Author, Julie R. Neidlinger
I am a writer, artist, and private pilot. My degree is in art and art history. I’ve had many different jobs, always having a foot in the freelance world.
My home base is loneprairie.net, my business and personal website since 1998. There, at any given time, you will find the online store, links to portfolios of my work, and other fun odds and ends.
I’m a follower of Jesus Christ. I write in an observational style about faith, humor, North Dakota, rural life, writing, art, conservative topics, travels, and pretty much anything that seems interesting.
What You’ll Find
The Lone Prairie Magazine on Substack has a variety of sections and tags to help you find the content you are most interested in.
As a subscriber, you are automatically subscribed to all sections except the Bible study section; you will need to subscribe to that separately, since it is a more targeted kind of content that not everyone would necessarily want.1
To respect your inbox, only the main blog post will go out via email, usually once a week. More content than that will be published and available to read on the Substack app or website, but it will not be emailed out.
Main articles that are emailed are usually available to all subscribers, paid or not, though most articles eventually go behind a paywall.
The other content that is not emailed is generally available only to paid subscribers. Not every paid subscriber wants their inbox flooded with every article multiple times a week, but every paid subscriber does have access to it on the Substack app or website.
This additional non-emailed content includes access to previously published material (print books and magazines), as well as new articles, audio, and video.
How A Subscription Works
You can subscribe to Lone Prairie as a paid or free subscriber. All posts eventually go behind a paywall, though most on the main blog are initially free for a short period.
Unpaid subscriptions give you access to the main weekly article (usually), but after a month, it, too, goes behind a paywall. Unpaid subscriptions do not have access to the rest of the content.
Paid subscriptions provide access to all content on Lone Prairie Magazine on Substack, whether it is emailed or only available directly on Substack. They can also comment on Notes and Posts where commenting is an option.
Regarding free trials…
If you have issues with your subscription payment, find out more below.2
What You Can Expect To Read (Listen, Watch)
Non-sequiturs.
Surprising lack of consistency in topics.
Hits, misses, and everything in between.
A chuckle.
The thought that I’m off my rocker that week.
I’ve been blogging for a quarter of a century on a lot of different platforms and in a lot of different styles, but at this point in life, I (generally) try a gentler approach towards observation, humor, and thoughtfulness, whether it’s through a funny real-life story or thoughts about a poem.
Most of the time.
Sometimes, my inner curmudgeon comes out, and a four-alarm rant escapes the gates.
Feel free to contact me through my main website, loneprairie.net
If you are a subscriber and need to make changes to your subscription or payment methods, you can do that here.
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To make changes to your Substack subscription (e.g. cancel or adjust plan), your latest email from Substack should contain links in the footer. You may also follow these steps:
Go to your Substack account at https://substack.com/settings
Under “Subscriptions” find Lone Prairie and click on it.
Scroll down to “Account Actions” and find the option that fulfills what you’d like to do. You may be taken to another page to confirm that action.
You can also email me if you have any difficulty with these steps.
