Publishing your short stories and flash fiction on a blog can offer several potential benefits:
- Visibility: By publishing online, your work becomes accessible to a potentially global audience. This can help you gain readership and develop a following.
- Feedback and Engagement: Publishing on a blog often allows for comments and interaction, which can give you valuable feedback and help you improve your writing. This also allows you to engage with your readers and build a community around your work.
- Portfolio Development: Your blog can act as a portfolio of your work. When you reach out to publishers or literary agents in the future, you can point them to your blog to demonstrate your writing skill and the audience you’ve built.
- Consistency and Discipline: Regularly posting on a blog can encourage you to write consistently. This can help you improve your skills, productivity, and discipline as a writer.
- Author Branding: A blog allows you to build your brand as an author. You can establish a unique voice, aesthetic, and theme that distinguishes you from other writers.
- Experimentation: Blogs are great places to experiment with new ideas, genres, or writing styles without the same level of risk associated with traditional publishing.
- Potential Monetization: Depending on the platform and your audience size, you might be able to monetize your blog through ads, donations, merchandise, or other methods.
- SEO Benefits: With proper search engine optimization (SEO), your stories can show up in search results, bringing new readers to your work.
- Direct Connection with Readers: Unlike traditional publishing, a blog allows you to directly connect with your readers, understand their preferences, and adapt to their feedback.
- Flexibility: Blogs give you total control over your content. You can publish what you want, when you want, and how you want, without needing to fit into the constraints of traditional publishing.
I’m warming up to write my first novel by writing flash fiction and other short works.
Shock Stories is a collection of my (largely unedited) short stories and fiction writing exercises.
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