Pen Strokes Lets Writers Publish Creative Writing Pieces and Earn

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I was very excited when I found out that one of the sites I write for called Daily Two Cents launched a sub-site called Pen Strokes that lets people publish poetry and other creative writing, while allowing them to make some money from it by paying writers per view, with no AdSense account required. While their payout is very small ($2 per 1,000 views) I joined Pen Strokes anyway because I have a lot of poetry, lyrics and other creative writing in my portfolio that I can share with the world and being able to earn some spare change from that would be fantastic. I published 26 posts so far. And with that many posts you'd think I'd have already reached the $5 minimum in earnings to get paid, and more than once for that matter. The reality is that I have not even made a dollar yet and I've joined the site I believe in July of 2015. That's because traffic to my posts is low, even though I share them on Google+, Pinterest, FB, and Twitter. I wonder how I can get my traffic to increase. Anyone have any ideas? Makes me wonder why another creative writing site I write for (AuthorsDen) that doesn't allow writers to earn gets my stuff lots of traffic, without much promotion on my part, while Pen Strokes does not. If any of you write for Pen Strokes what are your experiences with the site in terms of traffic and earnings?