I lot of wannabe fiction authors too. I posted some of my short stories there but got absolutely zero views or engagement. Seems like discovery is crappy over there too.
You should try Medium perhaps. I posted several photo travel stories on Medium - got some engagement - 100-200 claps (likes) and 1-4 comments but never tried their partnership program since I don't belong to the list of countries Stripe works with. Medium has "communities" - publications which are a sort of e-magazines (an example: https://medium.com/catness ), that's the first step - read stuff on medium, note where they successfully post stories like yours, contact those publications to get accepted - some are stricter, some accept new people. Ask ChatGPT to give you a list of medium publications to start with. Publications have some audience, including people who want to engage - probably, that engagement can be helpful to signal Medium algos that your post is good - the algo will show your post to a wider audience. The luckiest get promotion through Medium emails, etc. but that's considered a dream.
Starting with publications is a good thing since you 1) can choose ones that fit your tastes 2) you can look what the chosen ones like and what they publish and try to follow the format.
Learning Medium and Substack is useful anyway as these platforms are places Hive can onboard people and where we can learn a lot to enhance Hive.
I have a big back catalogue of writing here on HIVE - so it is certainly something that I can pursue in the future. Thanks for the detailed information.
I have been using Stripe in my photography business, and plan to continue that, as well, there are few other options as simple in Australia. (other than cash, hand to hand) - as sadly, it is one of those "hyper-local" business models - but my writing doesn't have to be that :)
Yeah, I know but never researched it deeply, only created an account. As I heard, many journalists blog there.
I lot of wannabe fiction authors too. I posted some of my short stories there but got absolutely zero views or engagement. Seems like discovery is crappy over there too.
You should try Medium perhaps. I posted several photo travel stories on Medium - got some engagement - 100-200 claps (likes) and 1-4 comments but never tried their partnership program since I don't belong to the list of countries Stripe works with. Medium has "communities" - publications which are a sort of e-magazines (an example: https://medium.com/catness ), that's the first step - read stuff on medium, note where they successfully post stories like yours, contact those publications to get accepted - some are stricter, some accept new people. Ask ChatGPT to give you a list of medium publications to start with. Publications have some audience, including people who want to engage - probably, that engagement can be helpful to signal Medium algos that your post is good - the algo will show your post to a wider audience. The luckiest get promotion through Medium emails, etc. but that's considered a dream.
Starting with publications is a good thing since you 1) can choose ones that fit your tastes 2) you can look what the chosen ones like and what they publish and try to follow the format.
Learning Medium and Substack is useful anyway as these platforms are places Hive can onboard people and where we can learn a lot to enhance Hive.
I have a big back catalogue of writing here on HIVE - so it is certainly something that I can pursue in the future. Thanks for the detailed information.
I have been using Stripe in my photography business, and plan to continue that, as well, there are few other options as simple in Australia. (other than cash, hand to hand) - as sadly, it is one of those "hyper-local" business models - but my writing doesn't have to be that :)