Paste the post and its main search query, ask for a few meta descriptions of about 150 characters that say what the reader gets, then paste the best one into your SEO plugin's meta description field.
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Your About page is often the first thing a visitor reads before subscribing. Give AI your topic, who it's for, how often you publish and a few of your best posts, and ask for a plain version you then rewrite in your voice.
Before turning on paid subscriptions, list what you publish now and ask AI to sort it into free and paid in a few different ways. Pick the one you can keep up every week, not the one that sounds biggest.
Ask AI to pull out every factual claim, number, name and date in your draft as a checklist. Then verify each one yourself against a real source; don't ask the AI to confirm them.
When a piece runs long, give AI the draft and the target length and ask it to suggest cuts, not a rewrite. You keep control of what stays and your sentences stay yours.
Before drafting, give AI your target query and ask what someone searching it is trying to do, what they'd expect to see answered, and in what order. Then outline from your own experience, not from what's already ranking.
A blog post is written for search; a newsletter is written for people who already know you. Ask AI to reshape the post with a personal opening, fewer headings and one clear link back.
A bio should tell a visitor in one glance what they'll get by following you. Give AI your topic and audience and ask for short, specific options without buzzwords or emoji strings.
A writer tracked 90 days of Notes and found they did almost nothing for two months before becoming the top subscriber source. Use AI to keep the daily habit alive: turn each week's post into a batch of short Notes you then edit and post one a day.
"The dead ramp is real and it's most of the work."reddit.com
Substack's feed now rewards replies that add a point of view. Paste the Note you want to answer and have AI help you find your actual angle, then write the reply yourself.
"A two-word comment is nearly invisible to the current algorithm."themonetizer.com
The 90-day Notes writer saw growth speed up as replies and restacks rose from 9% to 29% of their activity. Ask AI to build you a short daily list of conversations worth joining.
"Engage, don't just broadcast."reddit.com
Writers who crossed 100 subscribers say a human voice is what readers stick around for. Use AI for structure and research, and keep the sentences yours.
"People will see through the AI slop and feel a disconnect."reddit.com
Several writers point out that Notes is mostly other writers. Repurpose posts for the platform your real audience already uses, such as Medium with a short call to action at the end.
"The substack notes audience is very small and it's mostly other writers."reddit.com
Negative instructions give the model nothing to aim at. Describe the target instead: sentence length, how paragraphs end, names instead of 'a client'.
""Do not sound like AI" gives the model no target."logicoflogic.com
Ghostwriters who use Claude say the audience, positioning and past samples do more for voice than adjectives like 'casual'.
"put context FIRST, tone SECOND."moeed.app
Asking for a full draft in one go tends to produce the most generic writing. Build it one section at a time and edit between each.
"never accept a full-draft-at-once output."moeed.app
A popular tip in r/ClaudeAI: keep one file with your writing samples and rules and attach it to every writing chat so you never re-explain your voice.
"Create a master "MyStyle.md" file to reuse."reddit.com
Rather than asking the model to hunt its own AI tells over and over, rewrite the prompt with plain facts and real samples and run it once.
"it all just reads like AI, and I'm really struggling to get it to not sound like a robot."reddit.com
Add a rule to your email prompt that strips stock lines before they show up.
"No filler phrases like "I hope this finds you well.""reddit.com
A writer on X argues that a handful of finished pieces and old drafts teach AI your reasoning better than any prompt tweak.
"Better prompts won’t make AI write like you."x.com
A Threads growth guide recommends useful replies to niche accounts a bit larger than you. Use AI to find the angle; keep the reply in your voice.
"The Threads Reply Strategy: Borrow Reach You Have Not Built"nxcturnez.com
A common reach tip for writers on Facebook is to keep links out of the main post. Have AI write the post so it works with no link at all.
Bloggers report how-to posts losing traffic to AI Overviews. What helps: your own tests, data and edge cases that a summary box can't replace.
"my how-to site took a 40% traffic hit overnight"reddit.com
Pull the thesis, proof and examples out of an issue and make separate posts with different hooks, each one standing alone.
Fiction and nonfiction writers use AI to flag where a draft confused or lost them, then revise themselves.
"Does anyone use AI as a Beta Reader?"reddit.com
Writers who use AI as an editor say narrow passes work better: structure first, then continuity, then sentences.
Most inboxes show the preview text right after the subject, so write them together: the subject makes a promise and the preview adds a detail. Ask AI for options as pairs, then pick and edit.
Paste your current About section and a few facts about what you write and who it's for. Ask AI for a plain first-person version that says what readers get, then cut anything that sounds like a resume buzzword.
Collect the replies and questions readers send, remove names, and ask AI to group them by theme. The biggest cluster is your next issue, written by you, answering what readers actually asked.
Paste a blog post or newsletter issue and have AI split it into a numbered thread where each post fits X's limit and makes one point. Rewrite the first post yourself, since it decides whether anyone reads on.
Give Claude your outline and notes and ask for a first draft in your own voice to edit.