WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT PUBLISHING SHORT STORIES ONLINE IN 2025

This is what I learned about publishing short stories online in 2025: worth doing if you get the chance but don't be too critical of yourself if you can't. Fun as a low cost hobby but remember to keep your expectations realistic. All the websites you're thinking of posting to are either unethical or expensive or user unfriendly so just try and pick the least bad one. As you progress through 2025 your life might change around you. Just try to keep posting short stories online. You can write ideas down in your notes app on your phone. You might spend a fair bit of time looking at the sentence "Superhero whose power is luck" and trying to make it work but there's probably no way to do it that doesn't feel gimmicky. All you really need is three good sentences but you really do need them. If you're publishing short stories online and you have less than three really good sentences your story probably won't work out. Even if every part of the short story you're publishing online is dissonant there should still be a melody between those parts. You can probably also ignore the one that says "Macguffin world", unless you get really crazy with it. And most importantly, have fun