Publishing Short Stories

While redesigning my official Web site, I've changed things up a bit and now am offering all of my published short stories available to be read off the Web site. In addition, I'm planning on putting up more unpublished short stories to be available for free. Will I still submit short stories to magazines, etc.? Of course. But not as often, that's for sure.

The problem is I can draw more visitors to my Web site to read the short stories for free. A typical fiction magazine may draw anywhere form 100 to 5,000 readers to a particular short story. But if I put up a short story on my Web site, which draws anywhere from 500 to 2,000 visitors PER MONTH, guess which one is going to draw more reads? It's not about money for me. It's about telling my story to others.

And if you're writing fiction to make money, you might as well quit now. It's not a high-paying market. Write fiction to tell your stories.

(Don't worry, I'll still drop a few links to fiction markets every now and then!)