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Simily will Crash and Burn Unless they Hard Pivot
Because they’re not yet servicing the only fiction readers who matter
If you’ve been part of any writing circle in the past few months, it’s extremely likely you’ve heard of Simily.
This Medium competitor popped up early last year and has attracted a lot of attention for being different to Medium for one major reason, they proclaim a focus on fiction rather than non-fiction content.
This focus has caused a few writers to pen articles here on Medium calling for all non-fiction writers to back off. Stay on your own turf, leave us to the one place we can call home.
This arrival of a fiction-focused competitor should be excellent news for the many writers here on Medium (myself included) who have never earned as much as a dollar from any fiction content written and published on this platform.
Fiction is a difficult beast because it’s just inherently more difficult to convince readers to give you the time of day for something make-believe, not to mention the intense level of competition and the enormous amount of garbage already washing around the internet.
Only one genre of fiction is consumed as short online essays at a greater rate than book or ebook form. Only one genre survives being…
