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Mary Louisa Cappelli's avatar

We shall see . . . I went from making $700 to $1,000 a month to barely breaking thirty bucks this year unless a story was boosted, then it was a hundred.

Waving From A Distance's avatar

I liked this sentence the best!

"For writers who are clear with what they write, they find it’s a peaceful corner of the internet."

I agree. My stack is free, and each time I get a new subscriber who has discovered something I've posted, it's a thrill. I decided not to turn on payments the day I opened my stack. It was all about getting the work out there. Turning fear of rejection on its head...leaving it in the dust.

I get rejections all the time from poetry journals, but I also receive wonderful acceptances from literary journals, and after all, that is why I am here.

I chalk up rejections to sending my work to the "wrong" online/print magazines or journals because I misjudged the content editors like.

This is a helpful post for new writers on Substack. Thanks!