My glittering career #2
Jul. 13th, 2011 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
millionreasonsOh! I have been shortlisted for a thing! I haven't won, but I have come second or third, not sure which (the disparity between the two is £100, so I'm hoping for second, obviously), but anyway even if I have come third, the winner and the other runner up are both photographers, so I am the only writing shortlistee.
I think the last time I actually made any money from writing was a £10 book voucher for a poem published in the Co-operative Society's magazine in about 1994.
The news comes after I did a shift at my old work packing fruit. Four hours on my feet shoveling plums and cherries and lifting heavy crates and I'm exhausted. "From white collar to no collar," observed a colleague. £34.84 in the bank but at the cost of me poor old back.
You can read the thing here if you want. It is faction (the McDonalds thing never happened).
Edit: 2nd prize! £150!!
I think the last time I actually made any money from writing was a £10 book voucher for a poem published in the Co-operative Society's magazine in about 1994.
The news comes after I did a shift at my old work packing fruit. Four hours on my feet shoveling plums and cherries and lifting heavy crates and I'm exhausted. "From white collar to no collar," observed a colleague. £34.84 in the bank but at the cost of me poor old back.
You can read the thing here if you want. It is faction (the McDonalds thing never happened).
Edit: 2nd prize! £150!!
