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I Made One Person Laugh
All the validation I need!
Maybe you’ve heard of me? I’m the one that the former priest — who never met me but did read my work — predicted would win a Pulitzer. No, never heard of me, huh? Keep reading.
Before this platform came along I wrote short stories, longer short stories, and the odd — and I do mean odd — novel.
Would you care to guess what twenty-mumble-mumble years of writing and submitting my lovingly crafted bits of whimsy got me? My stories have been published in seven extremely obscure literary reviews none of which paid me for the privilege of charging subscribers to read them. One story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize but didn’t make the cut.
Then I wandered into this curious little corner of the Interwebz and found the grail: Readers.
Sure, the few coins tossed into my Stripe account each month are nice as well. But if I were in this writing thing for the money, clearly I have been going about it the wrong way. I never think: what will they, The Readers, like to read? I never gauge how well headlines…
