/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18395659]

>enjoy writing short stories (mainly horror, sci fi, and mystery thrillers)
>look up magazines to submit ones I think are good for potential publication
>nobody is accepting submissions other than random blogs
>nobody is willing to pay even a little if they choose your story to publish
>some even demand YOU pay a fee to submit your story

Was it always like this? How did old writers find places to submit their short stories and make some pocket change doing so?

[Anonymous No.18396311]

By writing porn commissions

[Anonymous No.18396364]

back in the olden days, before the internet, the only place to read short stories was magazines and lots of sci fi and horror writers made an income submitting stories to them

nowadays, everyone is on Wattpad, Tapas, FanFiction.net, or self publishing on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Books, Kobo books

[Anonymous No.18396421]

>>18395659
If you want to make money, you need to build a following first. Create a twitter account, sell your soul by dumbing down your content, and wait for a couple of years so you can make a few hundred bucks for your short story collection.
Either that or find a website or magazine that pays for submissions; they are few and far between, though.

[Anonymous No.18396446]

I plan to self publish myself, pay to print a couple thousand copies of my novel, then I'll just randomly leave the copies on subway seats for people to pick them up.
That should get a few hundred people to read my book, then they'll recommend it to their friends and it's smooth sailing from there.

[Anonymous No.18398084]

>>18396446
This generation's Dickens in the making.

[Anonymous No.18398210]

>>18396446
I've considered doing this in the past, just sitting down in a public place offering copies of my work for free.