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What Have I Learned From Almost 1000 Pieces of Writing in the Last Year?
And here I am, jumping the gun.
At every family get-together lately, I’ve added a new anecdote to my repertoire of what’s going on in my life: “Oh, you know, I write on this web site for five dollars a month, and they pay me depending on the time other members read. It’s just a side thing I’m doing since I’m not working full-time yet.”
I don’t tell them what name I write under or even the web site, but I do get a lot of nods and a slight glaze of interest in their eyes. I don’t say that I wish this would be the full-time gig instead of the paltry part-time thing I have which, though useful, is a time-suck I’d rather not have. The only benefit of it is that I have the option of insurance through the job without the premium of nearly $500 a month.
Insurance = a necessity (for me) = the one sign of stability, self-sufficiency, and normalcy I evoke in real life
As for the writing end of things, I don’t look at myself as particularly prolific either. Give me the mind of someone who can churn out a novel draft of 50K-100K within the span of a few months. I’d rather have that kind of writing resilience.
But I am nearing a sorta-kinda milestone where I’ve posted nearly 1000 pieces (ranging from short fiction…
