I did it! I currently have three publicly available stories on my website! I found that this was an extremely tedious process. I needed to copy and paste every paragraph individually into the HTML so that it would format properly. Not fun when you’re trying to format dialogue.
It was difficult for me to sort through all of the things I have written because there’s a lot of it that I like but want to submit for publication, or I want to edit and attempt to submit. I have had to rummage through my work and figure out what I was going to post on my website. I can’t simply post whatever I would like on my portfolio. That generally counts as being published online, even if it was unpaid, and therefore, that work can’t be submitted to most literary magazines.
This week, I’ve also submitted my first story for professional/semi-professional review! It’s a piece of flash fiction, and I submitted it to Factor Four Magazine. They only accept flash fiction of less than 1000 words, and I sincerely hope that I get accepted.
Next week, I plan on editing some of the pieces that I’ve uncovered while searching through my files and submitting them to other journals that are accepting submissions right now. I also want to try to do some work outside of my portfolio site, like adding information to my relatively new Ko-Fi site. I want to add a blurb to the bottom of each of my stories with a link to my Ko-Fi (maybe in button form?), so hopefully, I can generate tips from readers and start getting a following.