My (currently 2nd most shared/reprinted article to date) piece giving White folks some boundaries about how they interact with POC on the internet got reprinted again. Check it out here. As expected, I’ve been called a racist, rude, crude, divisive and the ever so common claim that I hate White people or that my work is why somebody just won’t try to not be racist anymore.
I also posted up a freebie Patreon update which you can find here.
I have an October/witchy themed piece coming out in a new to me publication next month that I’m pretty hype about.
So let’s talk some stats.
Freelance shit:
- Four pitches sent.
- One acceptance.
- One rejection.
- One no response.
Literary shit:
- Two submissions sent.
- One acceptance.
- One still in process.
- Acceptance for a small anthology, a wee peom.
- In process, suite of poems.
Not bad given that I’ve been sick for almost a full month, my partner is still pretty much incapacitated so I have to do all his household stuff too.
Other stuff. I have 255$ saved towards moving.
My poetry book is close to being born.
Being that I’m hustling to save up to move, I redid my personal budget which for our purposes is money made through writing. That means freelance and patreon and eventually possibly sensitivity readings.
October is a big bills month.
| WP | 100 |
| CC | 25 |
| Ginger | 6.4 |
| Office | 9.99 |
This is the short version of my budget. This is 100 over what I’d anticipated, I forgot that my personal blog renews this month. Whatever.
If most of my patrons go through, I will about deplete those funds for the most part which sucks and makes me angry but yanno.
What else?
I have this new thing coming out and the new to me editor had a really great response to the piece. My last um, three new to me editors have all be very enthused and into my work. One of my problems with freelancing is just how ramped up my anxiety gets. When I am freelancing because I’m broke, any failure or rejection or non response from publishers and I put a lot of pressure on myself.
I’m a terrible boss. And rationally I know that I can’t do the shit I’m good at in that state of mind but, I often feel like I’m too poor to be so against being exploited or having my voice fucked with.
I’m still trying to learn how to balance my need to hustle on the please just pay me level and continue to hold my personal integrity.
Shit is hard as fuck.
That said, I have some time next week and will be writing like a mother fucker. I’m selling important to me work that is me unfiltered. I’ve been very very blessed to work with editors recently who have been supportive and really believed in my voice enough not to ask me to tone my shit down.
So that’s that.
Posting will likely remain light while I’m grinding. Y’all know.
About that Writing thing. 