How does a writer publish their writing somewhere that isn’t a dumb cartoony secret website that nobody cares about?

Well: I imagine they think to themselves, “This thing I have made isn’t very good. I mean, it’s probably OK, but I still hate it. I’m going to send it anyway. Maybe someone will get something out of it. Hell, I don’t know.”

That’s what I would think. But the truth is that, for a lot of the writing that gets put out, crippling self-doubt doesn’t even enter into the quote unquote writer’s brain. Man, that’s kind of sad. That makes me really sad.

However! I should probably send something somewhere. Why the heck not? The worst that could happen is someone scans a story I have written and realizes they don’t care about it. How is that different from anything else about me or any of the other seven billion lost souls out there?

(What?)

Hah!!