Where can I publish a story?

Nowadays the Internet is the main means of obtaining information for a huge number of people. This is no longer just a means of communication, but a mirror in which our whole life is reflected. For the last ten years, for any organization, it became simply necessary to have a representation on the Internet, and, of course, these processes did not bypass the literature. Of course, fiction itself, like any literary activity, is traditionally associated with printed products, books and magazines, but recently a huge number of books have already been translated into electronic format, and most magazines and newspapers have websites or at least pages in social Networks. A modern young writer who for the first time thought about how to publish his story is also almost always forced to look for the most suitable platform for him on the net.

Having made such a decision, he faces a choice. He has to decide where to publish the story or some other of his work? To answer this question, for starters, it is necessary to explain that there are several types of literary resources for authors. Conditionally they can be divided into areas with free placement of works and a site with editorial barriers.

We will understand more ... The first allows you to publish to everyone, but often are some "interest clubs." This is a new phenomenon that has become possible in our day. Leaders here, perhaps, can be called portals stihi.ru and proza.ru. The latter are analogues of printed publications. Various literary, public and artistic Internet magazines, newspapers and almanacs. It's hard to say who is the largest electronic publication here. Personally, I'm guided by the number of reviews that users leave. For me this is a kind of indicator of the "readability" of the magazine. However, no one is forced to stop at a magazine of a young writer, which means that he can afford to send his story to the editorial staff of several magazines at once.

How to write a letter and offer your work for publication in the magazine described already once. In addition, usually in every literary magazine there is a page dedicated to this issue. It can be called "contacts", "authors" or otherwise. Moreover, one should pay attention to whether the magazine is represented on social networks, how much the editorial board is interested in expanding its own audience. After all, if the journal is not engaged, at least to a minimum, what one might call "advertising", it means that the audience is not very big and it can consist of the same writers as you. Yes, literature is often reserved for the elect, but, nevertheless, if your goal is not to join the "pathos of literary circles", but to find your reader, then this moment is extremely important.

Internet magazines themselves rarely make unique demands on their authors. They are repelled, as a rule, by banal things: illiterate written text, too much volume of work, etc. Look at what this or that publication publishes, and try to match their format.

However, finishing the article, it would probably be nice to go back to the original question. Where can I publish a story? I came to the conclusion that, no matter how trivial it sounds, the magazines that are on the first page of the search for the query "literary magazine" are there not in vain. Of the young projects I can single out a public, literary magazine "Reflexion of the Absurd", whose editorial staff is not too lazy to do previews of pictures to their publications and post announcements on them in social networks. However, as mentioned earlier, when it comes to fiction, the young author is not forbidden to send his story to several printed and electronic publications.

In any case, the main criterion for publishing was always the quality of the text. If you are confident in your abilities, then use all opportunities, participate in various competitions, and your first publication will not keep you waiting.