Self-Publishing is Not the Disaster I Thought It Would Be for Having Articles Boosted
Is taking a back seat to editors’ opinions always the best way forward?
A funny thing happened today. I received a boost on a self-published article. That makes two (self-published) boosts now. I genuinely thought my first self-published boost was a fluke, unlikely to be repeated anytime soon.
A self-published boost goes against a lot of the advice and buzz around Medium on how best to get boosted. Many publications with boost powers have published articles about what their criteria are for submitting articles for a boost, which is obviously very helpful.
It is probably still much easier to get boosted this way I would imagine, and I have been lucky to have a couple of boosted pieces in publications, for which I am grateful.
However with this latest thing that I wrote, I hesitated to submit it to the publication I would normally. It was written from a raw, primal place as opposed to an intellectual one. I knew I didn’t have it in me to take any suggestions to edit it (I edit everything I write, but sometimes editors want further edits, usually for justified reasons). It was too personal, I just wanted it out. I didn’t think anyone else would think it special enough to flag for…
