Your first stop is to find out what opportunities are available.
Magazines are by far your best chance of finding a willing publisher for your short story.
The trouble is magazines are ever on the decline because of the internet, so the competition is always getting tougher.
That being said there is a growing number of online magazines that you can try.
Frankly, getting fiction published has always been competitive, and submitting a short story is still one of the best entry points.
If you’re hoping to make any money at all from your stories then fighting against the odds is something you’ll have to get used to anyway.
It’s for this reason that we should point out that you probably shouldn’t be writing short stories just to make money. Really there are much easier ways to make money (just check out our make money section!) and if your heart isn’t really in it then it’s going to show in your writing.
Frankly you need to be passionate enough about writing that payment would be a nice bonus rather than a necessity to stand a chance of getting anywhere.
