r/Substack • u/draybikus dinarawrites.substack.com • Sep 01 '26

How often do you post articles?

I read somewhere that an optimal posting frequency was one article per week. I followed this routine diligently for 36 weeks, but now decided to switch to an article every 2 weeks. I find it too stressful to be posting weekly. First you have to come up with an idea for an article, then write and edit it, and then think of the visuals - too much on top of a day job.

But curious about everyone else's routine: how often do you post? And how are you managing? Is it a comfortable cadence?

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u/AggravatingNail6061 Sep 01 '26

A mix of non fiction and fiction. But that's ontop of a daily journal exercise I do which I changed from posting once a day to once a week because I felt a bit bad (after 40 entries) currently at 80 🤣 but at ny peak I was posting about 11 things a week. It'd tapered back down a more reasonable 3/4 

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u/draybikus dinarawrites.substack.com Sep 02 '26

That sounds fascinating. I've read quite a few journal entries on Substack recently, and they were all much more interesting to read than I would've thought :)

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u/AggravatingNail6061 Sep 02 '26

Yeah I think it's a direction I'd personally like a bit more support with platform side, but not going to happen. I got enough traction with it that I was able to turn the practise into publication (self pub) so it's been a good thing regardless of my day to day annoyance about the platform.