I write short stories and poetry. I’ve posted here on Lemmy a bit. I’d like to start publishing/ posting.

I’m afraid medium/ substack needs a lot of “publicity” and requires me to have social media accounts to promote it.

What other options are there? Any publications I can submit to? And are substack and medium any good?

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    So I assume you’re asking where to publish your writing to start earning money with it?

    Because to “start writing” like answering the question in your title, you just need a pen and some paper or a keyboard and computer or anything similar and start putting words in them.

    And it also seems like you’re already publishing it. Something is missing from your question.

    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      21·
      8 days ago

      Kind of. If I do go onto smth like substack, I don’t necessarily need to make money off of it but the idea that I could is kind of cool enough.

      Also I don’t particularly feel ownership of my writing when I post on Lemmy. I love Lemmy and will continue posting here, infact I started !ocpoetry@literature.cafe and post there too and will continue to do so.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        3·
        8 days ago

        Are you saying that you want to retain ownership of your content and see lots of people read it?

        What is your goal, in the simplest possible words?

              • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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                6 days ago

                Reading your descriptions of what you’re looking for has been a little frustrating. It’s felt as if I’ve needed to read between the lines a little to determine your goals.

                It’s not totally opaque, and you’ve done a good job of clarifying. It helps that this is a two-way forum where we can ask you questions. But if I just had to go off of the original post, I would have just had to guess what your goals were.

                By extrapolation, if you’ve been publishing in some places already and haven’t been getting much traction, it may be that the clarity of your published works — and therefore the engagement they generate by resonating with the mind of the reader — may be a little lacking.

                If I were to provide advice it would be: more detail, even if you think it’s obvious or goes without saying. Less implication and more explicit declaration.

                Which brings me to another question I didn’t think of before: Are you wanting to publish stories, news articles, essays, what kind of thing?