Get Your Writing Published

Yet another website/service wherein to post your work and read others', critique, enter contests, share camaraderie--Nothing Binding is a great example of a very attractive website design, although rather slow in loading pages. Shall we assume great success or inadequate hardware? With no advertising apparent and promises to remain ad-free, I wondered how the owners make a profit. Perhaps in the coming audio/video additional services?

The stress on "forming an emotional connection with prospective readers" and bypassing traditional publishing processes raises an interesting question. If you post your piece on this or any of the many similar outlets, will that count against the possibility of it ever getting it published by someone else? This issue was addressed by the editors at Writer's Digest magazine, who concluded you're probably better off not posting anything online that you might want to sell at a later time. More and more publications are asking for assurances that a submission is original work, never published anywhere. Anywhere includes online. They said material in blogs is still in an iffy state of flux and might or might not be considered as already published. The good news is that reprint rights can be sold for writing previously appearing on the web.