New Writing Platform for Writers!
Have you checked it out yet? Fiction writers, especially, take note of this!
As writers we need platforms. These online communities help us to build our audience and get our stories out there for people to read.
And there’s a new one.
Let me introduce you to Simily.
(There are no affiliate links in this post, just helpful ones!)
A little about the platform:
It’s a pay-to-read setup, much like Vocal+ and Medium.com. There are a few free reads per month on the free tier. There’s an introductory $1.99 charge for the first month if you want to try it out.
It’s heavily fiction-based! This is wonderful news for those of us fiction writers who haven’t found a space on other platforms. They also take other types of writing.
The payment structure, as the platform builds, will look like this:
At Simily, our goal is to help writers reach new readers and get paid in the process.
While we work to build our base of readers in these first few months, Simily will pay authors $0.02 for every unique view their stories receive per month – counting views from both paying and unpaid subscribers. This is our way of helping kickstart the money authors can make on the platform.
The more readers who experience your stories, the more you will make. Views are counted each month and payments rendered via PayPal. There is a minimum $10 payout. If you do not reach $10 in a month, your balance will roll over to the next.
Below is an example of how views correlate with monthly compensation.
# Unique Views per Month
Monthly Payout
1,000=$20
10,000=$200
100,000=$2,000
After the platform builds in memberships, the pay scale will switch to a revenue-based model where a portion of the membership fees will go to the writers, though exacly how this will be calculated is unclear. Currently, the benefit is the same as the drawback: not as much competition for views, but fewer readers to offer views. One might surmise that getting in early might mean making some authentic and lasting connections with a dedicated reading audience, but we can only wait and see if writers find this kind of success there.
My first impression of the site is that I LOVE the nice, clean interface, far less complex than other content writing sites. Might going “back to the basics” on this help Simily to appeal to both writers and readers, finding a competitive place in a crowded writer platform field? Might people be too wary to take a risk on a new site?
Well, as a seasoned writer, I have seen platforms like NewsBreak come on the scene and swoop up many writers into a whirl of excitement over payment possiblities. But here’s the thing about Simily (that is similar to NewsBreak – what they’ve done for news, Simily can do for fiction) – it does not matter WHO views your work. Paid members or not. These numbers count and you get paid. I say, why not submit, do the legwork to build audience, and see what happens?
This is good news for fiction writers.
Here’s a video to help get you started:
Thanks, as always, for your eyeballs and reading brain cells today, which you have lent to me, generously, in these last couple of minutes. I value your time. Hopefully, someone reading this will find a new and welcome home for their work.
Love,
Christina M. Ward
Fiddleheads & Floss Writing Services