My Highest Earning Story In May 2023
Ugh. I didn’t even scrape $5 this month.
I made just over $4.50 — plus I have the 30% international tax to contend with.
My stats are steady. I have 3k followers. I have published 500 stories.
And before you come to the conclusion that my writing must be sh**, I will kindly ask you to leave and not let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
I may be full of self-doubt on the best of days, but I know my stuff is good enough to earn more than $4.50. It’s certainly better than the sh** some people (…or bots, often, let’s be honest,) put out on the regular.
(No I’m not talking about you — if you’re reading this, then I’m definitely talking about someone else…)
I don’t want to enter into discussions about the conspiracies of the algorithm, or my regular (well-justified) rant about how they need to find a way to pay us for external traffic (the Freemium model is Right. There. Argh!)
And good Lord, PLEASE, no more advice.
I know it’s well-meaning, but it doesn’t help.
I promise that whatever you were going to suggest, I’ve either tried it, or there’s a goddamn reason why I haven’t tried it.
Sometimes you just have a sh**ty-paying month.
Sometimes you just get bad luck. (And I am no stranger to bad luck in any part of my life — my bad luck is legendary at this point.)
So, it is what it is.
But there are some glimmers of hope.
My highest-earning story was a piece of poetry that earned a little over $0.80.
That honour goes to ‘Cold and Fair’ — a gothic poem about fairies, because I am Welsh (which most of you will have noticed by now.)
I know that’s not a lot of money — but it means a lot that it’s my poetry that’s doing the best of all my posts.
In June, I’m trying to post 30 short form pieces — for the funsies, rather than with any expectations for money or stats.
If you want to cheer me on you can see my first June short form post here.
