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Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by nestorD on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:48AM (#27895207)
Internet makes it fairly easily to publish your short novels on a personal website. You are not going to make a profit or be marketed but at least your work is now out-there. Reading qntm's ones [0] got me to buy his self-published books.

[0]: https://qntm.org/fiction

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Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by HWR_14 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:32PM (#27895922)
I agree that internet makes it easy to self-publish short stories. And sure, if you are using it as promotion it makes sense. But I was specifically referring to short-stories as a viable commercial enterprise.
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Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by andai on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:01PM (#27896298)
Just write dozens and publish them 10 at a time. In fact, two of my favorite authors growing up did exactly that, Andy Griffiths and Paul Jennings.
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