Having your story accepted for online publication is exciting! But will anyone, besides close family and friends, read it? No, if you sit back and do nothing.

One of the most important but often overlooked aspects of any literary career is what happens immediately after a publishing deal has been inked—namely, how you deal with your new editor and publisher, which oftentimes is the exact same individual.

Unless the entirety o...

To make that unpublished-to-unstoppable transition happen, you need to write. And to write, you really have to live. You have to experience the world around you in all its splendor and glory—and oftentimes its ugly vagaries, as well. What I’m saying is, while you could...