Should I Start My Own Publication?
Am I just lost in the weeds?
Why is it good for me?
One of my favorite publications here at medium let me know today, that while I was starting to tune in and turn on as Timothy Leary said, I was also dropping out.
I was trying for some understanding of algorithms or whatever conspiratorial thing acted like my own Little John of Nottingham, and started letting through only thirty or so reads onto my stats page before it shut down for some hours. Repeatedly.
To be able to do this and get my reads up where I was wanting them, it required submitting a couple or sometimes three stories during a day.
If any of you have read my stories, you know they are not long and certainly not what anyone would call deep.
They were, apparently, too much for my favorite publication. I understand I am nothing special, but I was loving the higher read count.
Rats!
They have increased readership and writer submissions, so there you are. I am excited for them. But for me, it’s like discovering that I really love the chocolate-covered anchovies, just before my grocery store discontinues them.
Why is it bad for me?
A shiny new publication is fun and has plenty of room for my stories.
Trouble is, there are not very many readers there yet. Notice I said yet because I will try to answer that challenge and add readers as quickly as I can.
But I would have to crank out more than a hundred stories every day and force every reader I can find to read each of them. And it still won’t come close.
