This One is for Short Fiction and Poetry Writers

Especially YOU, my Medium co-workers riding the poetry struggle bus with me.

Raise Your Hand if You’ve Thought About Quitting Medium

Okay, you can put your hand down. You look silly.

I totally get it. I am a poet and writer of fiction. Even my non-fiction is subject to flowery verb and metaphor. Medium has given me a fantastic platform to share my work and build an author platform for my upcoming literary novels.

The new MPP rolled out in the last quarter of 2019 hit us fiction and poetry writers very hard. The Top Writer page for the Poetry tag has declined since then.

One day I this week I checked and there was only ONE featured story there.

In short, people are posting less poetry. (And some would argue the curators are selecting less of it.) I can’t imagine the current status of fiction writing is any better, but I’d love to hear some feedback on this from fiction writers. It has been some time since I’ve written fiction for Medium.

How much of your journey will you experience if you stay on one road and take no turns, or fail to look out the window?

But this article is not meant to be a whiny conversation about how upset I am about my plunging stats. (In fact, my stats are way up this week due to the sudden popularity of this.) It is meant to be a realistic conversation about the monetizing of our work.

It is also meant to give you a very clear check list of what you can do with your next poem or fiction piece to give it the best shot at earning you a little bit of money.

You’ll want to bookmark or make a quick list of this in your writer notebook.

Thanks for reading…hope you enjoy the free download of Monetizing Checklist / Poetry & Fiction.

Poetically yours,

Christina
author of organic