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?
Literally just ask chat.gpt to generate a list of free websites and forums to publish your stuff to and voila you’re off to the races.
“literally just use the plagiarism machine to give you an answer of middling quality that for all you know could be totally out of date” that’s you
No, because me and every single one of my peers was robbed to create it and iterate upon it; and I don’t fuck with theftboxes or the people who touch them
I dont know much about writing stories/poetry, but for publicity in fediverse (I assume you meant in fediverse too) here would be my response:
Lemmy is good but the main part of fediverse is the mastodon clients (twitter equivalent). Most of the users use a mastodon instance.
So posting to mastodon and lemmy seems like a good option. Although mastodon will limit post text length. Better to repost or boost it from lemmy to mastodon.
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.
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.
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?
Well I suppose that is what I’m looking for. Retain ‘ownership’ and find an audience of sorts.
If you want to stay within the fediverse, maybe have a look at federated blogging/publishing platforms like WriteFreely or Plume. (Both are also selfhostable).
Edit:
WriteFreely: https://writefreely.org/
Plume: https://joinplu.me/
I just searched for “submit short stories” and this was the first three results.
https://thewritelife.com/where-to-submit-short-stories/
https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/short-story/where-to-submit-short-stories/
