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?
When I was first publishing short stories, the best single piece of advice I received was to use thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com It's a repository of (most) journals and magazines that publish short stories/novellas. Definitely skews more SFF than strictly literary, but it was truly revolutionary in getting my stories to actual publications. I think it does poetry as well, but poetry was always way too difficult for me lol.
Also, if you want someone to beta read your stories just shoot me a DM and I'll be happy to provide feedback/tips :) Good luck, and don't get discouraged by rejections in the beginning!
Oh thats incredible thank you. I might just take you up on the offer to beta read a story! Thanks.
No worries :) one of the better kept secrets in selling short stories for sure
In all seriousness, visit your local library and ask them about it. Most library systems work with local authors to promote their work and regularly hold meetups and workshops for writers. Many cities have local zines, publishers, and anthologies. By getting to know your local writing scene, you can find opportunities to do readings of your work, have works published in collections, and so on.
Third world country with no libraries. But I didnt know that was a thing anywhere. Thats really cool!
Those comics are not mine. Thats ash perlman! I think I forgot to credit him since he signs his comics anyways. Thats my bad.
My poetry is over on !ocpoetry@literature.cafe
I do agree with your opinion though
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.
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.
