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This One Is For You, Ruby Lee!
My response to your It Pays piece
I found myself draining the e-highlighter that I decided it may be more prudent to simply write a response to your piece, Rubes. Can I call you Rubes? I kinda like Rubes. Okay, Ruby, it is…
Ruby Lee’s remarks from her piece are bolded and in quotes.
“I didn’t realize that I wasn’t following any guidelines at all. I wasn’t doing the titles correctly. I wasn’t using any pictures. I didn’t know what I was doing.”
And this is with my guess about 99.8% of first-timers on Medium. I know I was. I self-published my first two pieces because I didn’t know anything about publications for one. For two, my thought was that if I self-published and screwed up, who was going to be the wiser? I had no followers. It gave me the opportunity to play with buttons and explore the writer’s side of the platform without repercussion. It was nerve-wracking and freeing all at the same time.
“I finally understood the difference between self-publishing and submitting to a publication. Then I started submitting to publications willy-nilly, not bothering to read the guidelines for each publication.”
Yeah, willy-nilly never entered my mind. I’m too analytical for that. At some point, I…
