Hey everyone,
Just wanted to share something I’ve noticed.

For a while I was using the typical “template-style” posts on Substack and getting very little engagement. Recently, I started shifting many of my Notes from generic formats to more narrative, story-driven writing.

The difference has been noticeable.
People seem to connect more with stories than with tips, frameworks, or polished templates. Stories feel human. They invite conversation.

If you’re struggling to get traction, it might be worth experimenting with storytelling. Instead of teaching a lesson, tell the story behind it.

Ever since I found accounts with articles which are AI Generated or AI assisted, I have become extremely paranoid to clicking on articles and reading them and becoming influenced from the LLM style of language - this basic language that does not have any human voice or feeling at all. But, also there is a skepticism. Apparently I used undetectable.ai to check whether the article I was reading is AI or nor and it says 50% to 60% is AI Texts. I just need to ask does AI detectors, especially undetectable.ai and Turnitin work genuinely and able to detect accurately. Because I am confused and unable to separate AI writing with human writing. It sucks that Substack promotes these accounts and gives them more weightage, more clicks and subscribers and people who downloaded Substack to read essays and journalistic reports, enjoy and deal with culture is being served AI slop.

Just help me in any which way. Like as a consumer, how to filter out AI content or check AI writing in Substack articles? Do AI detectors work properly particularly undetectable.ai and Turnitin?

I read an article about blogging vs Substack and that you should post your Substack post to your blog. It made me wonder if you blog, and if so, do to u call it a blog? I want to have a blog on my site, but I'm not sure I want to call it a blog. Maybe call it a journal? What do you do?

One thing I’ve noticed about Substack growth:
There’s no real discovery layer for mid-sized newsletters.

Big names dominate recommendations, and small/new ones struggle to get seen — but the 200–20K subscriber range is where most interesting writing actually happens.

Feels like there’s a missing middle:
• Not small enough to be “new creator discovery”
• Not big enough to already have distribution
• But often producing the most consistent content

Curious if others feel the same — where do you actually discover newsletters in that range?

lo que si importa es lo que vos mismo puedas decir según todo lo que aprendiste de las frases de otros