Ten or fifteen years ago,
I came across a site where you would post a blog/story/whatever, and for every
view it got you would get a penny. So I
started posting whatever I could thing of to get some money. In the following few years, I found a dozen
or so such sites. Some I actually did
get money from, but others would have like a $5 payout minimum, and I’d be at
$4.50 and they’d go belly-up. All the
sites I knew of eventually died, and I don’t know if such sites still
exist. I imagine they’d be quickly
overrun by AI crap.
Anyway, besides all the
general posts about movies and society and whatnot, I also posted some of my
stories. For the simple reason that if
someone read one and liked it, maybe they’d go and buy some of my books. I don’t know how successful that was, but it
did lead to some issues. For one, most
publishers won’t take previously published works. Even stories posted on little known sites
that died after three months, count as previously published.
So what to do with a bunch
of stories I can’t submit to publishers?
Some I republished myself as part of a collection. But that still leaves a bunch of
stories. These may not be the very best
of my writing – since those stories I put in collections – but they’re not
garbage. Well, most of them aren’t
garbage, hopefully. But instead of
letting them gather dust in a forgotten corner of my hard drive, I’ve started
reposting them, mostly on my blogs. Because
the main reason I still post stories is to give a free taste of my writing so
maybe someone will check out and buy one my books. And while writing a new story each month for
my blog would be fantastic, there is this thing called life that often gets in
the way. So these okay stories that I
can’t really do much else with, are prefect to fill in the busy months. I spent who knows how much time working on
them, I might as well get as much use from them as I can.
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