Simily for Newbies

A new writer has questions about a new writing platform

Andy Spears
2 min readMay 28, 2022
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

A self-described writing hobbyist, new Medium writer GK Kingsley is an even newer writer over at Simily.

My early thoughts of Simily. Have you trotted over there yet? I’m… | by GK Kingsley | May, 2022 | Medium

She’s a poet — and she knows it! Simily seems (to me) a good fit for her short pieces in that the platform claims to celebrate creative writing in all forms. Plus, they pay based on reads, not reading time. As such, a short poem earns the same as a longer piece as long as it gets “read.”

In any case, GK has some questions for others who have tried Simily:

If you understand how Simily works, could you share some bullet point tips in the comments here?

I know there’s only a community of about 4000 writers on there at the moment. However, to me that screams opportunity rather than not-worth-the-effort. Should I join, be an early adopter, and start paying? Or should I hold fire. What do you reckon?

If you’re using Simily, what are your earnings? And what sort of content are you posting? It would be great to get a feel for how it’s working for other people. I’m probably not approaching things correctly.

Again, if you’re using Simily, what…

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Andy Spears
Andy Spears

Written by Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .

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