Ms Fischer in Publishing on Medium: Submitting to Publications or Self-Publish

I seriously doubt wheher it matters anymore how you publish your articles. It matters more what you publish. With writer earnings in a sinkhole for who knows how long, short pieces without images are the quickest to write and require the least effort. The next “level up” would be to create an image with a quote on a plain background.

This past month, I’ve only written comments on other writers' articles in “short form” with an image displaying a quote from the article. I plan to write short reflections on quotes from spiritual books and summaries of chess videos, but I haven’t gotten to that yet.

I’ve written longer articles and submitted them to pubs I already write for regularly. My seven favourite ones, in no particular order, are:

1. I AM Christian — Michael Snellen
2. Getting Into Chess — Oscar
3. Read Or Die — Adrian CDTPPW
4. Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO — The Mouthy Renegade Writer
5. New Writers Welcome — Robert Ralph
6. Writers Blokke — Benny Lim
7. Share Your Creativity — Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages

During 2024, my “publishing schedule” for these longer articles has been one per week. For the first half of 2025, the majority of my work will be self-published short comment articles weekly. When I occasionally submit longer articles, they’ll…