Jessica Hanna
asked
David Wong:
I am a big fan of your work so, you know, thanks for writing! As a fellow writer of the absurd and humorous, do you have any suggestions about getting my work out there? Are there online zines or blogs you could recommend that might have a home for some of my shorts? Thanks again. Looking forward to reading your latest!
David Wong
The key is to come to terms with the fact that you have two choices:
A) Write for another site with an existing audience, but conform to what THEY want. For instance, my day job at Cracked runs almost entirely off of user submissions: http://www.cracked.com/write-for-crac... but you're writing non-fiction, observational pieces that fit with the Cracked voice. They're not publishing short stories or poems or pure absurdism. Every outlet will have those rules, but in exchange they get you in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and pay money.
B) Do what I did, and start your own site, knowing you can literally publish absolutely anything you want, but you will have to build your own audience. It will take years, but great things always do. I literally never sold work to another site, I just wrote on my own and slowly found my audience.
A) Write for another site with an existing audience, but conform to what THEY want. For instance, my day job at Cracked runs almost entirely off of user submissions: http://www.cracked.com/write-for-crac... but you're writing non-fiction, observational pieces that fit with the Cracked voice. They're not publishing short stories or poems or pure absurdism. Every outlet will have those rules, but in exchange they get you in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and pay money.
B) Do what I did, and start your own site, knowing you can literally publish absolutely anything you want, but you will have to build your own audience. It will take years, but great things always do. I literally never sold work to another site, I just wrote on my own and slowly found my audience.
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Patrick
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David Wong:
When you started, was soy sauce intentionally a metaphor for the internet? It's this non-physical connection that doesn't necessarily make you smarter, but bombards you with information at an infinitely higher speed and quantity you're used to while simultaneously opening you up to monsters that have the personalities of 14-year-old boys, no empathy, and infinite time.
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