This is a thread for writers who publish online. Whether it’s Substack, Medium, Ghost, or your own corner of the web.Thread Guidlines:>Post a link to your writing (essay, story, newsletter, blog).>Give feedback to others. Don’t just link-dump. Even a few sentences go a long way.>Any style/genre welcome: literary, political, personal, critical, experimental.Think of this as an open workshop. Share what you’ve been writing, discover voices you’d otherwise never stumble across, and sharpen each other’s work with honest critique.Lurkers: read something, leave a thought. Writers: be brave.
>>24681630thenewshadows.substack.comFantasy slop and literary criticism, I guess. planning to post some novellas paywalled in the event I gather a following
Redpill me on substack/medium/etc
>>24681657The place where the skilled modern writer goes to be unpublished.
>>24681630Russian platforms with similar format %%habr, VC, DTF, yandex zen, LiveJournal etc%% are dead in the ground and became pretty much news and news discussion hubs cause of LLMs. >Substack, Medium, GhostHow could I be sure those won't have the same fate?
>>24681677Yolo dude.
>>24681650>https://thenewshadows.substack.com/p/the-graves-portionThis is a good story. Don't try to bargain with death. But is this first bit meant to be a pleb filter?>Four months before the day after yesterday, let’s call it last Tuesday, I impregnated my wife. >Before that, it had been a fortnight since I’d sneezed in her general direction, and before that, well, every solstice, equinox, Arbor Day, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
is there any political writers worth their salt on these, and is there any actual large audience to breakthrough to and cultivate? i have my masters in political science and the first few sections/chapters that the rest of might end up becoming a phd dissertation
>>24681697How do you have a masters when your grammar is this poor?
https://tumithak.substack.com/p/the-man-who-wouldnt-sync
>>24681705im very sleep deprived right now
>>24681694Thanks for reading it, anon.>pleb filterNo, I'm just too stubborn not to start slow.
> https://micz.substack.com/I've done all right posting poetry and the occasional translation. I even got retweeted by William Vollmann one time. (At least I think it was him, you never know on X)Also having a small online following is something publishes look for apparently. So I'm glad to have it.
>>24681630Mine: https://adolfstalin.substack.com/p/language-and-the-limits-of-history
AI slopstack
>>24681657It's a place where you can post your writing.
>https://eclecticmag.substack.com/I usually publish short stories, excerpts from my novel, and essays. I just started to delve into non-fiction and I published my first essay only yesterday.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mmcs68vxvccjklb/Mongol.pdf/fileI choose to share my work on 4chan and 4chan only because of my antisemitic views, racism, sexism and misanthrophy.
>>24682782Just get a web domain and share the link to your site, lol.
>>24682782Based
I want to post mine but I haven't written much yet
>>24681917You're a good writer.
>>24683171Thank you. I try.
>>24682737I read "Silver and Coal" and enjoyed myself. The setting was well drawn, and the characters were great fun. I admire your commitment to the 1700s feel as well, with your diction and capitalization of words mid-sentence.
>>24682737Read your essay on 'misanthropy'. It was pretty interesting.
>>24681677by putting up your own work that isn't news-focussed>>24681917good stuff, keep writingsubstack is a decent platform but has a lot of lost potential. still, its worthwhile having a portfolio of work available online, better than keeping your work languishing on a harddrive somewhere. plus if you keep at it, you can make a few dollars here and there which is nicehttps://egregoreandi.substack.com/> fiction, poetry, thinkpieces, songs, whatever else I feel like
>>24683232>>24683334Hey, thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it. :)
>>24683537>paid postI shan't be reading.
>>24683537charging for substack is the peak of pretentious sophistry. absolute trashbags do this kind of shit
>>24683994>>24684059pretension sophist here. only my novella is paywalled, rest is free to read. gotta pay for coffee somehow. but appreciate the feedback
>>24684185its maybe okay for some creative content especially if rest is free, but there are way too many sloppy political pundits who pay wall their actual shit.
>>24684189100% agree and its the biggest problem with substack right now. tonnes of mid-wit opinion pieces on contemporary politics and culture without any creative effort or real critical thinking involved but will still gain traction through the algorithm because what they're writing speaks to our cloistered thought-bubble culture.substack has potential to be for written content what youtube is for video, but it's nowhere close right now. it could be the best way for genuine writers to build an audience and distribute their work directly to their fans without the intermediary of a publishing house - at least that's what I'm working on.real talk if you're writing and want to build an audience, it's probably your best bet. and the more interesting creatives on the platform the better. the only way to compete with the mid-wit content is to write and publish better work. at least that's my opinion
>>24684527I think adding a Discover page would help substack.
>>24681630https://lincolnemiller.substack.com/ I mostly write book reviews and some essays, though I haven't done of either since the start of August because of other important things. Am trying to do a research project but work and my procrastination gets in the way
>>24682788>Just get a web domain and share the link to your site, lol.https://www.mongoldev.com/
>>24685483Nice.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-169864595
>>24686357Neat dystopian short, though its vignettes and terse exposition left me wanting more. I feel like there's enough of a world here for a sturdy novel, if not a trilogy.
My entire from tpage on substack is nothing but right wing ethno-nationalist adjacent culture analysis. It's exhausting. I hit not interested on some random cunt and I get an infinite recommendations of the exact same type of guy saying the exact same thing. The recursive algorithm loop is worse than any I've ever seen, it's basically unusable as an app since I'm unable to find anyone to read.
>>24687080Ironically, given how much Elon hates the site, I feel like Substack grows best from engagement with social media, including Twitter. I've found a proxy for sharing Substack links that gets around Twitter's shadowban of them, here, check it out:https://api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/
>>24687125Twitter is racist against substack?
>>24687242Elon pitched a fit when Substack launched their Notes segment because it's basically a Twitter clone. In response, Elon shadowbanned Substack links on Twitter: they don't show link previews and they cause the algorithm to massively deboost a tweet that has them.Elon then turned off outward-facing links in general, which has only made Twitter worse.
>>24687125How long before this domain is banned? Would paying for a custom url on substack defeat the twitter ban?
>>24687269I don't think the proxies are in trouble, or I've never seen them in trouble. I think Elon's too lazy/brainfried by drugs to work around it with any effort. He just wanted to be petty against Substack.
I'm getting ready to serialize a fairly substantial story on Substack. Hopefully I can find an audience. What are the best tips for building a readerbase quickly? I know about a regular update schedule, and about usually launching new chapters on the weekends. Any other tips?
>>24687314What's the story about?
>>24687320Science fiction. Lots of high-level tech. Applied theology and applied metaphysics. My protagonists are characters who can control the classical elements and were created by a cabal of super-scientists who have ruled the Earth from the shadows as a secret society for more than 2000 years, ever since a global thermonuclear war destroyed civilization as we know it now.My goal is to make it a great work of art. It's a very big story, but it also has lots of small and intimate moments.The story starts very slowly and nothing is as it seems at the book's start, so in addition to the length of the first book, this slow start seems like a good fit for Substack.I guess if these threads stick around I can start linking updates in here.
https://navigable.space/It explains itself>>24681657>mediummaybe 15 years ago it was good but it’s shit now>substackI’d say it’s fine and I’d recommend this generally in part because they seem to have figured out a decent business model (get people to pay $100/year to read stuff from a favorite author and skim off the charges) but they essentially have a done product and they’re still taking VC money for no obvious reason, and that’s a bad thingif you don’t have strong opinions on where to publish, I’d suggest substack>ghostit’s basically reactionary software after people started watching WordPress become a generalized CMS and stop giving shits about making blogging goodit’s also open source, so you can host the thing on your own if you want>your own damn websitebased but will likely make other people discovering you much harder than one of the packages above>>24681677>How could I be sure those won't have the same fate?That’s the neat part — you can’t.The best idea is to always have backups of everything you write on your own computer and make sure your own computer is backed up to at least two places, at least one of which is offsiteand “I put it in Dropbox/OneDrive/Google Drive” is not quite enough although it’s definitely better than nothing>>24681697Matt Yglesias, Noah Smith, and Curtis Yarvin are all on Substack>>24687125I thought substack links were OK — or at least the penalization wasn’t crippling — if you put them as a reply to your first postthat’s why you see “link in reply” all the time on Twitter
>>24687314>Any other tips?Be a cool guy in the comments section of other Substacks and be the kind of guy who gets other people to think “I wonder what he writes, maybe it’s neat”
>>24687387>tfw this would involve me having to read other people's SubstacksI almost never read anything written less than 100 years ago, this will be difficult.
>>24687388Well, it’s a thing you _could_ do.It may or may not be worth your time, and I can’t say that avoiding new material is a bad thing.
>>24687390I've gotten some fiction published in Substack-related content. In particular I wound up with a short story in Terror House Press and another short story published by Hard Reset. Both those guys like me a lot, so I've built up some fans, I could lean into that to get eyeballs on the story.
>>24687396*Wait, fuck, Terror House was years ago, I mean Tales of the Unreal and Hard Reset.
>>24687361Is this meant to be a game?
>>24688555not…reallyif I wanted to make it more like a game I’d add, like, an inventory or somethingif I called it a “game” I’d get people shooting back calling it a “walking simulator” like The Stanley Parableand I’d agree with them
>>24682737I'm one of the anons that trashed your noir pastiche earlier this year. I hope you've developed thicker skin.
>>24681711Is this like a legit discovered story or what?
My shitty little blog isn't literary or meant to be artistic. Cool thread, though.
/lit/ needed an equivalent of those /mu/ shill threads for years. how new is this?
>>24688935>I hope you've developed thicker skinYes, I would say that I have and I still cherish that experience, lol. I'm making the effort to write at least two drafts of my stories moving forward, and I have picked up some Raymond Chandler novels for inspiration.
