Your Substack, drawn as a head.
Every post you have published becomes a pane of glass, as big as the post is long, each colour a year. Then one question about your writing, answered from your own archive.
Example: Huliwood
Huliwood, drawn as a head: 91 posts since April 2023, one tile each, as big as the post is long. Each colour is a year, the oldest at the neck. The gold one, outlined, is the most liked: “Contigo Hasta el Fin del Mundo”.
- 2026 41 posts
- 2025 16 posts
- 2024 22 posts
- 2023 12 posts
Long or short?
1.0× Length isn’t it.
Huliwood’s posts over 800 words get about as many likes as the shorter ones, across 91 posts, each compared with the posts published around it.
Likes are the hearts a post has on Substack. Each post is set against the eight published around it, so an audience that grew later does not count as better writing, and the posts over the middle length are compared with the ones under it. Free and paid posts reach different readers, so they are never mixed: the answer uses whichever kind you publish more of. A publication with several writers is judged on the one with the most posts, since a writer with a bigger or smaller following would pass for a length effect. Podcasts, threads (Substack’s own, and posts named as open or discussion threads) and posts under 100 words stay out of it; they are still in the head. It needs 30 posts with likes. It calls a gap real only when fewer than one in twenty random splits of the same posts show one as big, and it tells you to write longer or shorter only when one side gets at least 1.25 times the likes of the other. The archive is read from Substack’s public pages when you ask, and the answers are kept for about an hour (a publication’s name for six), so a shared link does not read it all again. Nothing about you, the one reading this, is stored. Archives longer than 1,000 posts are drawn from the newest 1,000.