Monday, January 01, 2007
Bragging Rights
I've just received checks in the mail for a poem I had published in Star*Line (available now at www.sfpoetry.com) and for a political blog I post on occassionally (http://hopeandpolitics.blogspot.com/) (My column on Eid and Consumerism that was published last year is up there now for those who haven't had a chance to read it.)
Which gives me bragging rights as a paid poet and a paid blogger. I've had lots of poetry published here and there, and have won several contests that had decent prizes, but this is the first paid publication of a poem. Similarly with blogging... I blog here and have contributed to other blogs once in a while, but this is the first time I've been paid for my blogging.
Of course, the two checks put together would probably buy my husband and me dinner at a moderately nice restaurant... there's a reason we're called starving artists...
Ah well, still a nice way to start the year, with hopes of more and better in 2007!
Happy New Year to All! May all your dreams come true! ¶ 10:01 AM
Which gives me bragging rights as a paid poet and a paid blogger. I've had lots of poetry published here and there, and have won several contests that had decent prizes, but this is the first paid publication of a poem. Similarly with blogging... I blog here and have contributed to other blogs once in a while, but this is the first time I've been paid for my blogging.
Of course, the two checks put together would probably buy my husband and me dinner at a moderately nice restaurant... there's a reason we're called starving artists...
Ah well, still a nice way to start the year, with hopes of more and better in 2007!
Happy New Year to All! May all your dreams come true! ¶ 10:01 AM
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Congratulations!! Join the line of underpaid artists in the family. Sometimes I got so little that I was not sure my expenses were covered, especially after I became addicted to coffee mochas.
another note: I think you have to be smart to read the letters that make up the word verification. Maybe my brain just does not work visually the way other people's do. Where have I heard that before!
another note: I think you have to be smart to read the letters that make up the word verification. Maybe my brain just does not work visually the way other people's do. Where have I heard that before!
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: 2:12 PM
Hi Mom! Those letters are awful. I usually have to try two or three times when I want to leave comments because I can't read them, all distorted as they are. That's why I didn't turn on that function at first. Odd scam comments for wierd religious groups, medicines to give you incredible erections, and links to porns sites have made it necessary to get people to take a bit of effort to post a comment.
Yes, well, a significant portion of my earnings went to buy a set of small teaspoons (the little demitasse teaspoons that I so like). All my other ones had gotten chewed up in the garbage disposal or bent by kids trying to use them to pry something open...
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Yes, well, a significant portion of my earnings went to buy a set of small teaspoons (the little demitasse teaspoons that I so like). All my other ones had gotten chewed up in the garbage disposal or bent by kids trying to use them to pry something open...
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