How I’ve made less than $3 on writing platforms, and so can you!
It was a dark and stormy afternoon when I joined Vocal in the winter of 2021. I had high hopes for winning every single one of their contests and it spurred me to wuthering heights of harried writing with little to no revisions. Surely, they must realize my unfettered genius!
Alas, ’twas not to be. Sammy and Sunny constantly overlooked my raw talent and the Great Word Overage Scandal during the Summer Fiction Series finally disabused me of any notion that I had a chance at ever placing in a contest. I would have been better off waiting in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin to arise. Stay strong, Linus, and keep the faith!
When I left Vocal, I had less than $2 from reads. Even though I was a Vocal Plus member at the time, I still had to reach $20 so I didn’t even make the two dollars — it prevented me from chasing Sunny and Sammy (Scammy?) down on my bike! Somehow, screaming “A Dollar and Seventy Five Cents!” doesn’t flow as well as “Two Dollars!”:
