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Has Substack considered an option to have a "Buy me a Coffee" option for posts, where the reader can tip the author via a one-time payment? Substack could (and should) still take their cut but it might be more palatable for some readers.
Hello all, and happy Office Hours! Here’s a little bit of encouragement from one small newsletter to all of you: just like anything worth doing, writing is a commitment, a relationship. And every time you pour into it, it pours back into you in ways you can’t even imagine. So every single time you work on your writing in any way, you should be SO proud of yourself! You’re being shaped in ways you could never have planned, remade and reborn all the time, and your readers are just the lucky ones who get to witness that in real time and cheer you on while you take the journey! Remember: keep going, keep writing, and never ever give up! Someone out there needs to read your words! 🌿
This past week I got my first paid subscriber. I didn’t think it would happen so soon and it almost brought me to tears after a decade of toiling over my WIP and thinking it may never be good enough, but it was to someone and this has been a transformative experience for me in terms of how I view my writing. Thank you so much for this platform and for all the help.
It has been a goal of mine to create a comic strip for a long time, so I'm very happy to have done it, and of course the main thing that I learned in this process is that it is much harder than it looks!
It will probably take a month to publish issue #2, but here is issue #1 for your reading pleasure 🤗
Also, would love it if Substack created a "comic strip" category! Are there any other "newspaper" style cartoonists here?
For anyone out there who is NERVOUS to go paid: at least 50% of the people who go paid do it simply to support you. It is a monetary gesture of support. They don’t really care about getting anything special behind the payroll! Just go paid and produce decent to good to great content and you’ll have no regrets.
Hey Substack, I just created my newsletter aimed at celebrating the strengths of neurodiversity, but also educating others on what it's like - from a lived experience point of view.
Hi everyone ! I’m really happy this week because I received a few emails from my subscribers and had real deep conversations, I’m really happy and proud to realise that my decision to launch my newsletter and writing about my path to be an illustrator even if I’m self taught can help other people living with their own fears and doubts ! If anyone wants to read https://boujouchantal.substack.com/
I’m also happy because I discovered a lot of wonderful newsletters on substack and see how much Instagram is not a place for connection 😅
I love the Instagram stickers. BUT it would be even better if there was a “Share to Instagram” button once you subscribe to someone’s substack. Right now, Twitter is the only option. I’ve had a number of subscribers complain that they are not on Twitter and would like a different option.
Hello lovely people ! I’ve recently fallen back in love with writing, thanks to Substack and the obligation I now feel to my (small number of) subscribers 💓 I write about sex, relationships, and the general ordeal of being in one’s early twenties, navigating big life transitions with a not-quite-fully-developed frontal lobe 🧠⚡️ I’d be grateful to anyone who has any tips on how to grow your audience on here ! Or just writerly tips in general 💘📝
I have started to write essays this year. I'm nearing my mid-40s and it took me long enough to get started. I've always enjoyed the writing of Gore Vidal and Christopher Hitchens, and am writing in that spirit, but of course not anywhere near their level. Little steps forward accumulate. This week I published an essay on Pierre Poilievre winning the Conservative party leadership in Canada. I also drew the art to go along with it. It feels good to press that publish button! Keep writing people!
Otherwise, things are just bumping along. Publishing twice a week, constantly searching the depths of my own cluttered brain and the world at large for inspiration. Sending love and encouragement out to all of you showing up and putting words on the page. Keep going!
To everyone thinking that they can't build an audience without a niche - don't worry, just keep publishing and getting out there. In My newsletter Https:/fictitious.substack.com I cover everything from time travel movies to moral questions, and I've recently started posting my own fiction. The feedback I'm getting keeps me going forward and I really value every new connection I make through writing. Best of luck to everyone else out there!
I'm brand new to Substack. For 50+ years I've worked as a music journalist. Published a couple of books 22 years ago. At age 71, I'm essentially retired, which gives me time to tackle a project I've had in mind for quite some time: a compilation of interview transcripts with well-known musicians, each one with a short intro, plus a longer intro offering subjective tips on getting the best you can from your subject. I'd love to post it here, but I am a hopeless technophobe. Even simple instructions baffle me. Is it possible to dialog with someone who guides me into the process as if I were struggling through kindergarten? All input is welcome!
I want to take a moment to thank both the Substack Team and members here that share so generously in these threads every week. They have been a valuable resource! Every week I attend, I learn something new. So appreciative! xx
Here is the selling point for me to use Substack over continuing to use Wordpress.com - I despise the ads that are part of the WP.com platform. Substack doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of WP or other platforms but it's solid and ad-free (unless you choose to do your own creative advertising (twirls moustache)) and that made the difference for me.
Discovering the community features was the secret sauce. :)
Why has Substack removed the “ALL publications” toggle from their leaderboards? By eliminating this option and only highlighting 25 PAID publications per category, readers will have literally zero pathways to finding smaller publications/writers. I was getting 3 new random subscribers per week who were actively engaging in my writing and as a result of eliminating the "ALL" leaderboard, I have barely seen any new random subscribers.
Hi everyone! Firstly, I have to say I love the recommendation feature which has brought me so many new subscribers. I’ve been a big fan of Substack from the start but to grow with it and see it keep improving is a ride!
I do have a question about sections - currently all posts are listed on the home page. Is there any way to only show section posts under the section header? Also, is it possible to link directly to the section? I’ve questioned running separate newsletters but everything I read recommends keeping to one.
I’m a psychotherapist writing about mental health but have a specialist section for eating disorders, which I know isn’t relevant to all readers.
Will there be another version of the Substack Grow Fellowship available? I applied last year and would like to apply again! It seems like a great opportunity.
Our win for the week is that litthinkpodcast.substack.com was recommended in a teacher newsletter by one of the main gurus in AP Literature! We had several days in a row of record numbers for podcast downloads and the addition of about 10 new subscribers. She said that she is going to add us to her resource page, which is a huge boost of confidence and also a huge lift for our community.
Now we need to just keep growing our audience so we can justify adding a paid option in three months.
Hey everyone, I am a first generation student and immigrant who has begun writing on substack regarding human rights issues. I would appreciate if you guys could read my work and perhaps subscribe and add me to your list. I hit my first 50 subscribers, trying to get to 100!
My question this week: what are some tips for keeping up a regular posting schedule? I'm trying to maintain a weekly cadence, and I'm having a little trouble keeping my internal momentum going. Any tips you guys have for keeping energized and creative would be great!
Hi Substack, quick bug report. I noticed the format/layout of the substack desktop website has changed slightly? When I initially opened this article, i voted in the poll and it gave me an error saying I needed to subscribe to vote, despite the button in the top right clearly showing I am subscribed. When I clicked on the comments, it switched from the new format to the old format and I was able to vote just fine. The new layout looks great and it feels more like a "reader" than a blogroll, which I appreciate.
I have a technical question too: If I make a new section on my newsletter, can I introduce different subscription tiers for that vs. my base newsletter? I'm contemplating some changes to my newsletter offering and it looks like even if I introduce a new section it will still abide by my existing paywall.
So I have a paid question: Would it be so terrible if, for the time being, I kept paid on (I only have two paid out of 150 subscribers) but just made all of my work public for now. I like my work. I want everyone to read it. But I also want to give people the chance to support me and I know that those who have already paid genuinely don't care if they get anything extra.
Hi Substack crew, I'm going to ask again for a Search box, where readers can type in a word or two to find an article they've read before and want to read again. Most blogsites have them and they're extremely useful.
As the writer of those pieces, it's a handy tool to go back and find them myself! Especially after I've written a few dozen or more. Saves having to scroll through everything to find them.
I have a Substack newsletter and a LinkedIn newsletter. Right now they are the same because I have a following on LI but not on SS. I don't think I can add a paywall to my LI newsletter and would like to do so on SS and offer additional content. I could drive traffic from LI. Just wondering if anyone else does this?
After a certain point I stopped letting the mobile format decide my paragraph length and accepted that larger paragraphs are simply a cost to be paid with viewing on mobile. Definitely prefer desktop reading.
Also I'm curious, how do you approach your about pages? I'm going to revise mine to reflect the addition of a new section, but wondering if anyone has picked up insights on what makes for a compelling about page in general. I just tried to describe what I wanted to do and how often I intended to do it.
Lastly, does anyone else here write about fighting games? I keep on making blog posts that tie into them in some way, and I have a fiction project styled like a fighting games.
Over the past 4 months since the launch, I see a tonne of one-time readers who read & like just one or two articles without ever subscribing. Just wondering if there is any way to engage more deeply with these folks?
Last week I asked if there is a way to… create a "bubble-esque" space for text to appear in transient fashion when a reader mouses over text in my article? For instance, if I use an obscure word and I want to define or elaborate on it in superficial text for readers unfamiliar with it, I would like to allow those readers to hover over that word and learn more without having to bake the text into my overt portion of my article (for the benefit of those readers who are familiar with it). I did this five years ago at work on an open-source wiki site using a built-in feature of hypertext markup language. I know it can be done with ease, I just don’t know if it can be done on the Substack platform and how to do it.
Jackie was kind enough to respond and suggest that the capability may not yet be present. Assuming her understanding is correct, how can I petition that this feature be added? It is not only very important for my writing but I also think many other writers will appreciate the benefit of such a tool. I believe your primary means of receiving suggestions is from questions posted in forums like this (i.e., office hours). But because this capability is not easily tagged or characterized in a key word or two, I am doubtful that your weekly office hours metrics will flag it as something that many authors would like BUT I AM VERY CONFIDENT that many of them would use it if it were available. Is there a suggestion box or email where I can submit this important feature for consideration to the team?
I've had some churn in subs, but generally the trend is upwards, but with some plateauing from t2t. August was a weird month with subs up and down, and a great response to two pieces, but maybe holiday time does things to people's attention?! 😉
I appreciate the extended discussion of tips and other marginal revenue strategies--but what would help me the most is more flexibility in subscription options. Has Substack ever explained why this feature is so limited? I love the Substack platform and want to use it more creatively, but the rigid subscription structure makes that hard. If improvements are on the roadmap that would be great to know--and if not, that would also be useful information.
Something I wish I was able to do that I haven’t seen commented here yet is to easily get a shareable link from the top right drop down menu of my posts on my dashboard without having to click on it. This might just be me though.
I post links to my writing on Reddit. When someone subscribes through one of these posts, sometimes the source is "reddit" while other times it is "direct."
What can I do to ensure these subscriptions are being properly tracked as "reddit"?
So just to clarify, does the referral program apply to all paid subscriptions? For instance, if I gift someone a subscription as the writer, can they add people through the referral? Or is it just for people who sign up on their own? Also, what’s the difference between referrals and group subscriptions?
I'm really ignorant to all the requirements and rules involved in being writer within Substack. I don't have experience with a social media platform based forum so I'm unaware of any costs, rules, complying with copyrights and references to previous books or articles on certain subjects by other authors. I'd like to try if it would be helpful within the Substack community, but I'm all about truth and proof of it so my articles or news letters would stand as such. If any of you with experience could help get me off the ground I'd ike to make the attempt. Oh, and I hope that there's Spell Check.
Who's given the referral program a try?
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Has Substack considered an option to have a "Buy me a Coffee" option for posts, where the reader can tip the author via a one-time payment? Substack could (and should) still take their cut but it might be more palatable for some readers.
Hello all, and happy Office Hours! Here’s a little bit of encouragement from one small newsletter to all of you: just like anything worth doing, writing is a commitment, a relationship. And every time you pour into it, it pours back into you in ways you can’t even imagine. So every single time you work on your writing in any way, you should be SO proud of yourself! You’re being shaped in ways you could never have planned, remade and reborn all the time, and your readers are just the lucky ones who get to witness that in real time and cheer you on while you take the journey! Remember: keep going, keep writing, and never ever give up! Someone out there needs to read your words! 🌿
👋 everyone!
This week was very special to me! First I had my first Guest post on the newsletter of Kevin Alexander
(https://thekevinalexander.substack.com/p/guest-post-benjamin-from-small-ears) but today I also got my first paid subscriber! It’s a big achievement for me and it made me want to write even more! See you on Small Ears!
This past week I got my first paid subscriber. I didn’t think it would happen so soon and it almost brought me to tears after a decade of toiling over my WIP and thinking it may never be good enough, but it was to someone and this has been a transformative experience for me in terms of how I view my writing. Thank you so much for this platform and for all the help.
I just hit 200 subscribers, 16 paid!
annabelascher.substack.com
Finally! I've published the first three panels of my comic strip, "It's ALL Good Times."
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/its-all-good-times
It has been a goal of mine to create a comic strip for a long time, so I'm very happy to have done it, and of course the main thing that I learned in this process is that it is much harder than it looks!
It will probably take a month to publish issue #2, but here is issue #1 for your reading pleasure 🤗
Also, would love it if Substack created a "comic strip" category! Are there any other "newspaper" style cartoonists here?
For anyone out there who is NERVOUS to go paid: at least 50% of the people who go paid do it simply to support you. It is a monetary gesture of support. They don’t really care about getting anything special behind the payroll! Just go paid and produce decent to good to great content and you’ll have no regrets.
Hey Substack, I just created my newsletter aimed at celebrating the strengths of neurodiversity, but also educating others on what it's like - from a lived experience point of view.
Hi everyone ! I’m really happy this week because I received a few emails from my subscribers and had real deep conversations, I’m really happy and proud to realise that my decision to launch my newsletter and writing about my path to be an illustrator even if I’m self taught can help other people living with their own fears and doubts ! If anyone wants to read https://boujouchantal.substack.com/
I’m also happy because I discovered a lot of wonderful newsletters on substack and see how much Instagram is not a place for connection 😅
I love the Instagram stickers. BUT it would be even better if there was a “Share to Instagram” button once you subscribe to someone’s substack. Right now, Twitter is the only option. I’ve had a number of subscribers complain that they are not on Twitter and would like a different option.
Hello lovely people ! I’ve recently fallen back in love with writing, thanks to Substack and the obligation I now feel to my (small number of) subscribers 💓 I write about sex, relationships, and the general ordeal of being in one’s early twenties, navigating big life transitions with a not-quite-fully-developed frontal lobe 🧠⚡️ I’d be grateful to anyone who has any tips on how to grow your audience on here ! Or just writerly tips in general 💘📝
I have started to write essays this year. I'm nearing my mid-40s and it took me long enough to get started. I've always enjoyed the writing of Gore Vidal and Christopher Hitchens, and am writing in that spirit, but of course not anywhere near their level. Little steps forward accumulate. This week I published an essay on Pierre Poilievre winning the Conservative party leadership in Canada. I also drew the art to go along with it. It feels good to press that publish button! Keep writing people!
I would love to know the difference between:
Substack
Substack Network
Direct
These seem to be the same thing but they are recorded separately in stats. Why is that?
Hi, folks! Excited to say that I’m two subscribers away from finally hitting SIX HUNDRED total subscribers. Woot!
The recent bumps have been from doing guest posts for other Substacks. The most recent one came out Tuesday night. Check it out! https://www.nightwater.email/p/late-night-vibes-lunch?utm_medium=email
Otherwise, things are just bumping along. Publishing twice a week, constantly searching the depths of my own cluttered brain and the world at large for inspiration. Sending love and encouragement out to all of you showing up and putting words on the page. Keep going!
To everyone thinking that they can't build an audience without a niche - don't worry, just keep publishing and getting out there. In My newsletter Https:/fictitious.substack.com I cover everything from time travel movies to moral questions, and I've recently started posting my own fiction. The feedback I'm getting keeps me going forward and I really value every new connection I make through writing. Best of luck to everyone else out there!
I'm brand new to Substack. For 50+ years I've worked as a music journalist. Published a couple of books 22 years ago. At age 71, I'm essentially retired, which gives me time to tackle a project I've had in mind for quite some time: a compilation of interview transcripts with well-known musicians, each one with a short intro, plus a longer intro offering subjective tips on getting the best you can from your subject. I'd love to post it here, but I am a hopeless technophobe. Even simple instructions baffle me. Is it possible to dialog with someone who guides me into the process as if I were struggling through kindergarten? All input is welcome!
I want to take a moment to thank both the Substack Team and members here that share so generously in these threads every week. They have been a valuable resource! Every week I attend, I learn something new. So appreciative! xx
BTW, I went to one of the Substack meetups in Boston yesterday. It was so fun to meet other Substackers!
Let’s please do more of these!
Here is the selling point for me to use Substack over continuing to use Wordpress.com - I despise the ads that are part of the WP.com platform. Substack doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of WP or other platforms but it's solid and ad-free (unless you choose to do your own creative advertising (twirls moustache)) and that made the difference for me.
Discovering the community features was the secret sauce. :)
Why has Substack removed the “ALL publications” toggle from their leaderboards? By eliminating this option and only highlighting 25 PAID publications per category, readers will have literally zero pathways to finding smaller publications/writers. I was getting 3 new random subscribers per week who were actively engaging in my writing and as a result of eliminating the "ALL" leaderboard, I have barely seen any new random subscribers.
Hey Friends, The Author's Guild did a webinar with some general info and tips on Substack with Erin Lowry of Broke Millennial. Check it out here: https://www.authorsguild.org/whats-new/seminars-member-events/money-matters-the-road-to-financial-literacy/substack-getting-financial-support-from-your-readers/
https://brokemillennial.substack.com/
Happy Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month! Any other latino/a/x writers out there? Or writers who focus on immigrant issues? I'd love to connect!
I am a psychiatrist and political historian who is working hard to try to combat the presence of demagogues like Trump in American politics.  I would love your support and any advice and encouragement you can possibly provide. https://elimerritt.substack.com/p/it-all-started-with-rush-limbaugh?r=ezn4d&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
Hi everyone! Firstly, I have to say I love the recommendation feature which has brought me so many new subscribers. I’ve been a big fan of Substack from the start but to grow with it and see it keep improving is a ride!
I do have a question about sections - currently all posts are listed on the home page. Is there any way to only show section posts under the section header? Also, is it possible to link directly to the section? I’ve questioned running separate newsletters but everything I read recommends keeping to one.
I’m a psychotherapist writing about mental health but have a specialist section for eating disorders, which I know isn’t relevant to all readers.
Any advice would be super welcome.
Will there be another version of the Substack Grow Fellowship available? I applied last year and would like to apply again! It seems like a great opportunity.
I'm writing serialized fiction that needs to be presented in chronological order. How is this done?
Newbie here, in my second month! (https://piecesbyleila.substack.com/)
I have a question that may or may not be insignificant in terms of growth:
How important are the three tags we can choose to help readers discover us through Substack?
And to my fellow writers, have you found you had a significant number of subscribers through Substack, and if so, do you have any tips?
Gracias! x
Our win for the week is that litthinkpodcast.substack.com was recommended in a teacher newsletter by one of the main gurus in AP Literature! We had several days in a row of record numbers for podcast downloads and the addition of about 10 new subscribers. She said that she is going to add us to her resource page, which is a huge boost of confidence and also a huge lift for our community.
Now we need to just keep growing our audience so we can justify adding a paid option in three months.
Hey everyone, I am a first generation student and immigrant who has begun writing on substack regarding human rights issues. I would appreciate if you guys could read my work and perhaps subscribe and add me to your list. I hit my first 50 subscribers, trying to get to 100!
Hi! Hope everyone is doing well! ♡
My question this week: what are some tips for keeping up a regular posting schedule? I'm trying to maintain a weekly cadence, and I'm having a little trouble keeping my internal momentum going. Any tips you guys have for keeping energized and creative would be great!
Also, I want to shout out my first full post on Standom, my newsletter about fan culture. It's about Nicki Minaj, the Barbz, and stan culture. Let me know what you think if you get a chance: https://standom.substack.com/p/a-queen-forever-defined-by-her-subjects
Thank you again! Happy to join this community! ♡
Hi Substack, quick bug report. I noticed the format/layout of the substack desktop website has changed slightly? When I initially opened this article, i voted in the poll and it gave me an error saying I needed to subscribe to vote, despite the button in the top right clearly showing I am subscribed. When I clicked on the comments, it switched from the new format to the old format and I was able to vote just fine. The new layout looks great and it feels more like a "reader" than a blogroll, which I appreciate.
I have a technical question too: If I make a new section on my newsletter, can I introduce different subscription tiers for that vs. my base newsletter? I'm contemplating some changes to my newsletter offering and it looks like even if I introduce a new section it will still abide by my existing paywall.
Thank you!
So I have a paid question: Would it be so terrible if, for the time being, I kept paid on (I only have two paid out of 150 subscribers) but just made all of my work public for now. I like my work. I want everyone to read it. But I also want to give people the chance to support me and I know that those who have already paid genuinely don't care if they get anything extra.
Hi Substack crew, I'm going to ask again for a Search box, where readers can type in a word or two to find an article they've read before and want to read again. Most blogsites have them and they're extremely useful.
As the writer of those pieces, it's a handy tool to go back and find them myself! Especially after I've written a few dozen or more. Saves having to scroll through everything to find them.
Please, please, please??
I have a Substack newsletter and a LinkedIn newsletter. Right now they are the same because I have a following on LI but not on SS. I don't think I can add a paywall to my LI newsletter and would like to do so on SS and offer additional content. I could drive traffic from LI. Just wondering if anyone else does this?
After a certain point I stopped letting the mobile format decide my paragraph length and accepted that larger paragraphs are simply a cost to be paid with viewing on mobile. Definitely prefer desktop reading.
Also I'm curious, how do you approach your about pages? I'm going to revise mine to reflect the addition of a new section, but wondering if anyone has picked up insights on what makes for a compelling about page in general. I just tried to describe what I wanted to do and how often I intended to do it.
Lastly, does anyone else here write about fighting games? I keep on making blog posts that tie into them in some way, and I have a fiction project styled like a fighting games.
Over the past 4 months since the launch, I see a tonne of one-time readers who read & like just one or two articles without ever subscribing. Just wondering if there is any way to engage more deeply with these folks?
Last week I asked if there is a way to… create a "bubble-esque" space for text to appear in transient fashion when a reader mouses over text in my article? For instance, if I use an obscure word and I want to define or elaborate on it in superficial text for readers unfamiliar with it, I would like to allow those readers to hover over that word and learn more without having to bake the text into my overt portion of my article (for the benefit of those readers who are familiar with it). I did this five years ago at work on an open-source wiki site using a built-in feature of hypertext markup language. I know it can be done with ease, I just don’t know if it can be done on the Substack platform and how to do it.
Jackie was kind enough to respond and suggest that the capability may not yet be present. Assuming her understanding is correct, how can I petition that this feature be added? It is not only very important for my writing but I also think many other writers will appreciate the benefit of such a tool. I believe your primary means of receiving suggestions is from questions posted in forums like this (i.e., office hours). But because this capability is not easily tagged or characterized in a key word or two, I am doubtful that your weekly office hours metrics will flag it as something that many authors would like BUT I AM VERY CONFIDENT that many of them would use it if it were available. Is there a suggestion box or email where I can submit this important feature for consideration to the team?
Why is George Saunders always trying to upstage Subtack's Office hours with his office hours? lol
I've had some churn in subs, but generally the trend is upwards, but with some plateauing from t2t. August was a weird month with subs up and down, and a great response to two pieces, but maybe holiday time does things to people's attention?! 😉
This piece has some great notes on passing on SM for growing a subscriber list (tl, dr: lot of effort with low returns): https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/artists-need-better-social-media
I appreciate the extended discussion of tips and other marginal revenue strategies--but what would help me the most is more flexibility in subscription options. Has Substack ever explained why this feature is so limited? I love the Substack platform and want to use it more creatively, but the rigid subscription structure makes that hard. If improvements are on the roadmap that would be great to know--and if not, that would also be useful information.
Stickers are dope!
Something I wish I was able to do that I haven’t seen commented here yet is to easily get a shareable link from the top right drop down menu of my posts on my dashboard without having to click on it. This might just be me though.
I post links to my writing on Reddit. When someone subscribes through one of these posts, sometimes the source is "reddit" while other times it is "direct."
What can I do to ensure these subscriptions are being properly tracked as "reddit"?
Loving the Instagram stickers!! Thanks for those SS 😊❤️
So just to clarify, does the referral program apply to all paid subscriptions? For instance, if I gift someone a subscription as the writer, can they add people through the referral? Or is it just for people who sign up on their own? Also, what’s the difference between referrals and group subscriptions?
Any progress on the Android app? I signed up (I think) for the beta, but never heard anything. I'm anxious to start using that as my primary reader.
Oh boy, we got stickers!
Interesting to see the poll results. It’s helpful when determining certain stylistic choices. As always, thanks to the Substack team.
I'm really ignorant to all the requirements and rules involved in being writer within Substack. I don't have experience with a social media platform based forum so I'm unaware of any costs, rules, complying with copyrights and references to previous books or articles on certain subjects by other authors. I'd like to try if it would be helpful within the Substack community, but I'm all about truth and proof of it so my articles or news letters would stand as such. If any of you with experience could help get me off the ground I'd ike to make the attempt. Oh, and I hope that there's Spell Check.