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What options are there to start writing? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Would you like feedback on your writing?

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 3 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?