The Psychology Behind Having Your Own Publication Vs Only Submitting to Larger Ones

Having your own publication can build your confidence as a writer.

One of my publications just hit 2000 followers. It’s a pleasant surprise. I ignore stats most of the time. The only reason I know The Happy Spot hit the 2000 milestone is Medium sent me an email saying “Congratulations.”

Which is nice of them.

When I joined Medium, over a year ago, one of the first things I did was to start two publications, one focusing mostly on writing and writing on Medium, specifically. The other pub I run focuses on life, love, relationships, and the collapse of relationships, which can, in some cases, be for the best (and cause happiness once out of them). They’ve grown in followers steadily, and writers ask to be added as contributors.

There are many reasons why starting your own publication on Medium is a good idea. It’s easier to grow and stand out as a writer being the editor of one or more. Maybe not at first, but eventually. Plus, it’s easy. Unless you allow other writers to contribute, that would require you to put in time editing, rejecting, or accepting writers to maintain a certain editorial standard. When you have your own pub, it makes rejection on Medium easier to handle because you have somewhere else to publish your work immediately and organize it, with minimal effort using tags, for you and your readers to find and follow your work.

I’m not sure why this is, but most of my viral stories were first rejected by major publications, large and small. They went viral after adding them to my own publications. No revisions were made to them before I published, I just hit publish, and they took off.

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