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Why Isn’t There a Tedium Pub Dedicated to Literature?
Why does Tedium ignore its creative writers?
When did redundancy become a genre? Judging by most of Tedium’s in house pubs they must think it is a popular one.
Hey Tedium, here’s a fucking idea, why not start at least one in house pub dedicated to literature? You don’t even have to pay the $200 a pop per article you’re paying other writers. Creative writers are used to getting shafted. Pay us $1 per haiku, $5 per poem 25 words or more, and $25 per short story 1000–10,000 words. That is fairly good middle of the road rate for most lit journals out there.
Since your new fucking system is more than likely going to all but kill the pitiful earnings most of the creative writers are already making why not throw us a bone here? Give the hundreds of thousands of creative writers on Medium a reason to keep subscribing and supporting this platform.
And one more idea for you Tedium. You want paying subscribers right? Well, I happen to be an active member of several Facebook writing groups for poets and fiction writers that between them have around 400k members. Know what the number one question is in those groups? “How can I earn money from my writing?” Believe it or not, I often tell them about Medium. The second question they ask is almost always, “What’s Medium?” After I give them a…
