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Paid writing!

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 11:29pm on 04/03/2008
After the disappointment of another no sale, I got home from the writers' group tonight to find my first ever payment for a writing fiction. An envelope was waiting for me from spacewesterns.com who published my Martian Cowboy limerick. Inside the envelope was a single dollar bill.

I think I'm going to frame it.
Mood:: 'happy' happy
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posted by [identity profile] peteyoung.livejournal.com at 11:56pm on 04/03/2008
Another day, another dollar... congrats!
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posted by [identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com at 01:13am on 05/03/2008
Isn't that a heady feeling? Cash for words!
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posted by [identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com at 01:28am on 05/03/2008
You are now officially a published author. It's not so big a step to 'bestselling'.
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 02:31am on 05/03/2008
Go, you! Is that you snagging a mutual friend's rocket ship in that icon?
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 07:58am on 05/03/2008
Yes indeed :-)
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posted by [identity profile] overconvergent.livejournal.com at 08:44am on 05/03/2008
Well done! Is this going to be like one of Knuth's checks?
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posted by [identity profile] teaparty.net at 08:46am on 05/03/2008
congratulations that hard-working man! shame they couldn't pay two bucks, and send out two-dollar bills, though - more fun to have framed.
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posted by [identity profile] green-knight.livejournal.com at 09:04am on 05/03/2008
Considering it would cost you £2,50 to get it changed, framing sounds like a good plan!
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posted by [identity profile] mevennen.livejournal.com at 09:55am on 05/03/2008
Hooray!
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 10:16am on 05/03/2008
Frame it! Frame it! Happy boo! First of many I hope.
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 10:30am on 05/03/2008
Excellent!
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posted by [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ at 11:11am on 05/03/2008
Woot!
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 12:05pm on 05/03/2008
Nice one! More please, I'm sure.
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posted by [identity profile] greenjavatroll.livejournal.com at 04:36pm on 05/03/2008
Congratulations! May you get many more envelopes paying you for your words!
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posted by [identity profile] secretlondon.livejournal.com at 05:04pm on 05/03/2008
Woo!
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 07:12pm on 05/03/2008
Yay! Here's to huge inflation in your pay rate, too ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] couchspudprotem.livejournal.com at 07:32pm on 05/03/2008
Hip hip - hooray!

So... pizzas on you next Writers Group, then??
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posted by [identity profile] bluehairsue.livejournal.com at 04:08pm on 06/03/2008
Yay! Go, space cowboy!!
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posted by [identity profile] kuaimao.livejournal.com at 08:57am on 24/03/2008
I'm a bit late on this, but congrats!!! :)

I did the same thing when I sold my first-ever anything (a poem, to Strange Horizons); I never cashed the $20 cheque but instead put it in my scrapbook.

It's cool to get money for something you just thought up, isn't it?
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