YouTube for authors - 1000 Keyboards

This is called the YouTube for authors and readers of short stories. The site is called 1000 keyboards. I have no clue if this will become as big as YouTube. However, the concept is interesting and unique.

There are 8 categories of stories - comedy, drama, fan fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, horror, mystery & crime, romance, and thriller. There are other categories like Popular authors, Popular stories, New stories, Top recent stories, etc. you can search for stories by tags as well.

I wonder why will writers submit their stories when they are not getting any rewards for it. I read somewhere that writers who say they don’t write for money are either liars or idiots. And I completely adhere to the philosophy. I mean you completely write your heart out and that becomes the content of some website and they earn million of advertising bucks from it. I write on ezine articles just to get a link love. That’s all. That said, there are those who will say ‘we write because we love to write and money doesn’t matter’. Well, if YouTube can work, maybe so this can. Or is this different? Let’s see.

And I do want to test the waters and see how it goes. Possible benefit I can guess is that there is a 0.1% chance somebody notices my writing and wants to become my publisher. Let’s see that too.

As an occasional fiction-writer, I have submitted an old story of mine called Night of Dying. Simply put, it is about an old man and one night. Check it out and feel free to leave your comments or rate the story.

Here is a section of the story -

He passes by the dry garden, round the thorny shrubs and finally the yellow-leaves path. He recognises them by their dark magnitudes. The night has its advantages. Everything is black while daylight would have mockingly displayed their piteousness.

The dusty veranda stands ahead but yet he has to overcome five steps to reach the top.

He pauses. He stops and looks around. Is there a whisper? From behind the trees? Surely it can’t the trees. They can only lament - life is getting raped over and over again. He knows his is different, a bit. He pulls himself towards the trees. He knows he is brave. He used to be. And strong. Yet a cloud of trepidation and qualms hangs above his head and inside his fainted heart. Every step leads to an area darker than the previous. He eagers to look back. But he daren’t. And he can’t go any further.

The full story is here. This is my profile page at 1000 keywords.

I would love it if 1000 keyboards integrate their services with blogs and social networking sites. suppose I have a blog where I write my short stories. Can I publish them on 1000Keyboards simultaneously through my RSS feed? also, can I display my stories on 1000 keywords on Facebook? If enabled, this would become an useful tool then to many.

I need to be able to edit my story as well. What if I see some mistakes or want to make it better after submitting it.