Tom Vaughan
@storyandplot · Story and Plot Screenwriting · Substack profile · Film & TV
Tom Vaughan has 6,411 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 50 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 20.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 6,411
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 5K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 50
- +1 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 20
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 6,411 | 5K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
50 publications recommend Tom Vaughan; 1 started in the last 30 days. Tom Vaughan recommends 20, and 9 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-02 | 2 |
| 2025-03 | 2 |
| 2025-04 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 2 |
| 2025-06 | 4 |
| 2025-07 | 4 |
| 2025-08 | 5 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 4 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 5 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 6 |
| 2026-10 | 1 |
Recommended by
Stephen Follows23k followers · started Apr 2025
Audrey Knox8.2k followers · started May 2025 · mutual
jen harrington7.7k followers · started Jul 2025 · mutual
Will Hines5.8k followers · started Apr 2025 · mutual
Margaret South3.5k followers · started Apr 17, 2026
Bobby Smiley1.6k followers · started Feb 2025 · mutual- Davidson Writes; Blogs on Screenwriting and the Industrystarted Oct 15, 2026new
- Breaking Storystarted Sep 20, 2026
- Making Movie Mana in the Moanastarted Sep 20, 2026
- Crafty Writingstarted Sep 18, 2026
- Notes from a Baby Writerstarted Sep 13, 2026 · mutual
- Advice from an Amateur Screenwriterstarted Sep 8, 2026
- Kremericastarted Sep 2, 2026
- Nyapa Weeklystarted Aug 30, 2026
- WTF with Dean Piperstarted Aug 27, 2026
- The Rostykus Reportstarted Aug 23, 2026
- Brand Authenticstarted Jun 29, 2026
- ScriptMatchstarted Jun 9, 2026
- Andrea’s Substackstarted May 25, 2026
- Life, some frequently asked questionsstarted May 12, 2026
- Dunn's Dead Reckoningstarted Apr 27, 2026
- Notes & Nudges on Writingstarted Apr 17, 2026
- Tom’s Substackstarted Apr 14, 2026
- Aurin Squirestarted Apr 9, 2026
All 50
- Reconciliations by Ryan Fightmasterstarted Feb 2, 2026
- The Fully Human Writerstarted Jan 28, 2026
- Tyler's Takestarted Jan 15, 2026
- Leer para verstarted Nov 21, 2025
- Viktor's Substackstarted Nov 20, 2025
- Killer Shortsstarted Nov 14, 2025 · mutual
- Tea, Book & Hammockstarted Nov 11, 2025
- Sue Ploeger’s script to novelstarted Sep 2025
- Imagine | Believe | Discoverstarted Sep 2025
- R.Halfshutknife Substackstarted Aug 2025
- Quills and Shadowsstarted Aug 2025
- pratul’s Substackstarted Aug 2025
- Breaking Forth: Marketing for Theaterstarted Aug 2025
- Reel Quotablestarted Aug 2025
- Tish Jensen, MDstarted Jul 2025
- All Write Rom Comstarted Jul 2025
- Shelf Made Stories by Christinastarted Jul 2025 · mutual
- RETRO THEATREstarted Jun 2025
- AHDesignstarted Jun 2025
- Angel’s Substackstarted Jun 2025
- Empty Vesselsstarted Jun 2025
- The Writer's Tablestarted May 2025
- Script Hivestarted Mar 2025 · mutual
- No-rules fictionstarted Mar 2025
- Re:Writingstarted Feb 2025
- All Is (Not) Loststarted Jan 2025 · mutual
Recommends
tepper13k followers · started Aug 21, 2026- Audrey Knox8.2k followers · started Sep 2024 · mutual
- jen harrington7.7k followers · started Jul 2025 · mutual
- Will Hines5.8k followers · started Feb 2025 · mutual
- Bobby Smiley1.6k followers · started Jul 2025 · mutual
- Notes from a Baby Writerstarted Oct 18, 2026 · mutualnew
- Hollywood Hangover: The Blogstarted Aug 14, 2026
- Killer Shortsstarted Aug 8, 2026 · mutual
- mark pellingtonstarted Jul 13, 2026
- Eat, Cry, Writestarted Jul 9, 2026
- Cat Mulvihillstarted Jun 25, 2026
- Unboundstarted Jan 27, 2026
- Scheer Nonsensestarted Sep 2025
- Dan Sterlingstarted Sep 2025
- Shot Zero: pithy posts on shot designstarted Aug 2025
- World Buildersstarted May 2025
- Story Summitstarted Apr 2025
- Shelf Made Stories by Christinastarted Apr 2025 · mutual
- Script Hivestarted Mar 2025 · mutual
- All Is (Not) Loststarted Sep 2024 · mutual
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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Writers who share the most recommenders with Tom Vaughan. Useful for finding peers, and for sponsors looking for similar audiences.
- 6 shared
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other Film & TV writers with 5,000 to 10,000 followers (26 writers in that group), but not Tom Vaughan.
- recommends 7 of themFilmStack Daily Digest
- recommends 6 of themFilmStack Deep Dive
- recommends 5 of themThe Intellectual Investor
- recommends 4 of them
Dario Llinares@dariollinares - recommends 3 of them
Entertainment Strategy Guy@entertainment - recommends 3 of them
Sophie@itssophieschoice - recommends 3 of them
Marya E. Gates@oldfilmsflicker - recommends 3 of them
Whatever Nevermind@heywhatevernevermind - recommends 3 of them
Alex Segal@dealmakers - recommends 3 of them
Taylor Lewis@luzfilms
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