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THE WRITING LIFE
Oh How Quickly the Glow Fades
After the sugar high of a boost, it’s hard to live through the letdown
This is going to sound ungrateful, it probably is. Maybe I’m just a greedy, ungrateful piece of work. I am. I should be happy for the veritable flood of money following a Medium boost in early December. And I am — or I was — except that the joy has been mitigated by the puny trickle ever since.
That’s the rub, isn’t it? When you’ve known great riches (this is relative, of course) it’s hard to live in poverty. Or, as I wrote during another time of puny trickles — after the Prince of Boost has visited, it’s hard to be Cinderella again.
Make yourself comfortable and I’ll tell you the story:
Once upon a time, an aspiring writer called Cinderella spent long days in the scullery churning out Pearls of Wisdom and Deathless Prose. While her pearls and prose went largely unnoticed in the Land of Medium, Cinderella was driven. Sure, she should be sweeping and cleaning and doing other domestic stuff, but she usually skipped all that and churned instead.