Substack Writers at Work Index

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Discover Your Substack DNA

Understanding what your Substack is and how to communicate it to potential subscribers + content strategy

• How to start to discover your Substack DNA

• You get to be you on Substack, and how to bring more of you…

• How to Write or Revamp Your Substack About Page to Draw Subscribers

• How to Revise or Write Your About Page to Draw Subscribers

• Sharpen Your About Page, Short Description, and Title

• About page emphasizing the annual

• Your Substack Bio and Short Description Are More Important Than Ever: A Workshop

Find Your Next 1000 Subscribers (Growth strategy)

• How to be a Featured Substack (Updated 2025)

• Pass the Substack Recommendations, Please

• Authentic Substack Growth: Two Under-the-Radar Success Stories

• Growth Session: How to Use Your Substack Metrics

• Find Your Substack Audience Q&A

• Growth Session: Discover Who You're Really Writing For

• Substack Growth Session: Gain Devoted Followers, Readers, and Superfans

• Substack Visionary Jeannine Ouellette: How Generosity and Expansion Lead to Meteoric Substack Growth

• Substack SEO (4.3)

• Alt Text and SEO on Substack Grow Series Workshop

• Substack Visionary Jeannine Ouellette: How Generosity and Expansion Lead to Meteoric Substack Growth

• The key to growth on Substack

• Get to Know Substack to Grow: An Interview with Hamish Mckenzie, Co-founder

• "Getting" Subscribers on Substack

• Interview! Authenticity and Publicity: A Conversation with Nishant Jain

• Publicize Your Substack Dolly-Parton Style: A Conversation with Digital Marketer Miller Coffey

• Lucy Werner Wants You to Hype Yourself and Your Substack

• Instagram to Substack: Convert Followers into Paying Subscribers Without Selling Out

Get Your Next 100 Paid Subscribers (Paid strategy)

• How to become a Substack Bestseller your way with Caroline Donahue and Stephanie Bennett Vogt

• How to Inspire Substack Subscribers to Upgrade Workshop

• Don't Make These 2 Mistakes When Using Substack's Upgrade-to-Paid Button

• Monetization Strategies: Mastermind Cohort Call

• Converting Paid Subscribers: Mastermind Cohort Call

• Convert Paid Substack Subscribers Without Having to Beg

• The Gentle Art of Paywalling on Substack

• 3 Steps to Earning an Income on Substack

• Using Substack's Emails to Keep and Convert Subscribers Workshop

• Make Money on Substack Workshop

• Substack in 23 Minutes: From Newbie to Knowledgeable to Ready to Grow 2025

• Make Your Substack Essential: A Workshop

• How to Run a Workshop (Webinar) on Substack

• The Simplest Way to Inspire People to Pay for Your Substack

• How Much Is Your Writing Worth?

• Taylor Swift's Business Plan for Substack Writers

• Running Challenges on Substack with Case Studies and Examples

FAQs about posting on Substack

• How Long Your Substack Posts Should Be in 2025: Write less, please

• How often you should post on Substack in 2025: Post less, please

• How Much Time You Need to Spend on Your Substack to Make Money in 2025: Do Less, Please

• What You Really Need to Know About Your Substack: The Medium Is the Message

Create Your Substack Content Calendar

• Create a Substack Content Calendar You Love

• Create Your Substack Content Calendar Growth Session

Write Posts That Spark Engagement

• How Do You Keep Subscribers Reading?

• The Magic of the "Golden Nugget" Substack Post

• How to make Substack much, much more relaxing…

• How do you create a vibrant comments culture? With David Roberts and Gregory Garretson

• How to Build a Vibrant Comments Section on Substack

• Engagement vs. Community on Substack: LIVE!

• On Substack: Building Relationships vs. Creating Community: LIVE!

• Quality Writing Matters: How to Gain Devoted Readers on Substack Workshop

• Comments, Chat, Discussion Posts, and DMs Unpacked (in 4 minutes)

• Everything You Need to Know About Posting on Substack in 6 minutes (2025)

• Quality, Not Quantity on Substack Workshop

• How to Voice Your Opinion on Substack Writing Session

• How Much Is Your Writing Worth?

• Memoirists: Discover Your Compelling Reason to Do This (which will keep you writing)

• How to Collaborate on Substack (in ~1 minute)

• Your Substack Is So Much More Than Just a Newsletter

• The Art of Writing Viral Substack Posts that Spread Workshop

• What Does It Mean to Write Well on Substack?

• Why Your Substack Posts (might) Need Images (and how to use them well)

• Your Title Is Everything

• Seduce Your Readers on Substack: An Interview With Laurie Stone

• Telling Your Story on Substack: How to Enthrall (not bore) Your Subscribers Workshop

• Tell Enthralling Narrative Stories Subscribers Will Pay to Read Workshop

• Branding for the Branding-Averse: An Interview with Sara Tasker and Keeley Rees

• Streamlining Your Substack: From Pronouns to Platform Design

• Mastering Substack Video Workshop

• Substack Audio (in 4 minutes)

Master Substack’s Notes to Grow

• The 5 Types of Notes That Go Viral

• What's going viral on Substack Notes [Updated June 2025]

• June Notes Prompts/Challenges

• Why Notes and a carefully chosen community are the keys to Substack

• Grow on Notes AMA

• What people are saying about the Substack Notes Challenge!

• SEO is (kinda) dead + beta testing titles+how to be seen in Notes categories

• The Art of Telling Tiny Stories on Substack Notes and Beyond

• Get Engagement on Notes: Insights from Two Substack Creators

• Substack Summit: Substack Notes, engagement, and not being salesy

• How to Stop Feeling Like You're Speaking into the Void on Notes

• Notes-in-a-Nutshell 15-minute Overview

• Super-powered, 7-Minute, Notes in a Nutshell

Serialization

• The Active Voice: E. Jean Carroll, Mary Trump and Jen Taub are bringing serialization into the mainstream

• Serialize Your Novel or Memoir on Substack Workshop with Artistry and Ease

• Learning from Dracula: An interview with Matt Kirkland of Dracula Daily

• What True Crime Teaches Us About Serializing on Substack

• How to Serialize Your Book, Novel, or Memoir: An Interview with Sarah Fay

• Serializing Social Justice

• Why HBO's 'The Last of Us' Is Such a Masterful Serialization

• 6 Elements a Successful Serial Novel Needs

• Who Will Write the First Blockbuster Serial Novel or Memoir?

• The "Perfect" Substack Novel or Memoir

• The Art of the Synopsis in a Substack Serialization

• A Second Shot at Getting It Perfect: An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk

• Agatha Christie Teaches the Art of Serialization

• Writing Social Justice

• Decisions to Make Before (or as) You Serialize Your Novel or Memoir

• The Secret to Writing a Great Serialized Novel or Memoir

• Prep Your Novel or Memoir to Revise or Serialize in 6 Steps

• Mini-Course: Kickstart Your Memoir

• Memoirists: Event ladder

• Memoirists: Find Your Voice

• Memoirists: Make Your Setting Come to Life

• Memoirists: Make the People You Write About into Characters

• Memoirists: Turn Your Idea into a Narrative Readers Can't Stop Reading

• Turn Your Idea into a Narrative Readers Can't Stop Reading

• Novelists: Your Event Ladder and First Post

• Novelists: See the Point of View and Hear the Voice

• Novelists: Make Your Setting Come to Life

• Novelists: Write Real Characters

• Novelists: Discover Your Compelling Reason to Do This (which will keep you going--promise)

• Mini-Course: Kickstart Your Novel

The Craft of Writing on Substack

• The 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks

• Master Punctuation and You Master the World

• Punctuation on the Street

• Didn't Certain Famous Writers Hate Punctuation?

• Write Subscriber-Worthy Personal Essays

• Write Substack Subscriber-Worthy Personal Essays

• The Art of the Interview on Substack and 'Beyond' with Jane Ratcliffe

• 5 (kind of) Perfect Proofreading Methods

• Edit Your Substack Posts, Please

• 3 Revision Techniques Every Writer Needs

• The Antidote to Writer's Block

• Where to Start? Idea Building & the Zero Draft

• You Don't Have to Be a "Writer" to Write on Substack

• It's Called Creative Criticism

• A Field Guide for Creative Writers on Substack

• How Publishing on Substack Can Change the Definition of Success

• The 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks

• How to Create a Substack that Gives You the Writing Career You Want Workshop

Substack for Authors

• Substack Authors: You and Your Books Deserve to Sell and Keep Selling

• Use Substack to get an agent & launch your book with Mikala Jamison & Jason Chatfield

• The Dangers of the Six-Figure Book Deal

• Landing an Agent and a Big-Five Book Deal: An Interview with Nancy Reddy

• The Other Side of Publishing: An Interview with Russell Nohelty

• Need to Know: An Interview with Author and Book Coach Courtney Maum

• FAQs: Use Substack to Sell Your Book Masterclass—Bestseller-List Strategies for Authors

Substack and Your Mental Health

• Substack and your mental health

• Substack on a Time Budget Growth Session

• Set Your 2025 Substack Goals: Bold Ambition, Meaningful Growth Session

• Popup Substack Writers at Work Members Meetup!

• Doing Substack Imperfectly

• PEP TALK

• Pep talk: Quiet the Noise on Substack with the Amazing Claire Venus

• Bonus! Soulful Social Media: An Interview with Kat River

• 6 Ways to Avoid the Substack Rut

• In Praise of Envy

• On Rejection (on Substack)

• Finding Time to Write Isn't the Problem

• Drama-Free Self-Discipline

• Patience for Substack Writers

• Permission to Rest: Substack as a Way to Sustain Ourselves Through Writing

• Why Is Procrastinationitis More Acute in Writers?

• Non-toxic Productivity for Writers

Substack & AI

• What's your Substack's AI policy? And why you need one

• Why Every Substack Creator Should Disclose Their AI Usage Policy

• How a Subhacker's Note (possibly written by AI) Made Me Sad

Essays

• Chicago's Sarah Fay Shares Five Things She's Learned about America

• Exclamation Points: A Redemption Story

• Why Speed Reading Will Destroy Your Soul

• Rereading as a Writer

• Our Bizarre Fascination with How Writers Work

Featured

• Criteria for Writers at Work Featured Substacks

• Featured Substack: Anchor Change with Katie Harbath

• Substack for Introverts

• Build Your Intellectual Capital on Substack

Diary of a Substack Strategist

• 1-to-1: What I Learned Helping Hundreds of People Succeed on Substack in 2023