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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

Janice Macdonald
Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO
4 min readJan 3, 2025

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Savour the sweet taste while it lasts. . . (author’s photo)

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.

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Janice Macdonald
Janice Macdonald

Written by Janice Macdonald

At 68, I started a new chapter in my life: I moved to France. Alone. It turned out to be quite the page-turner. Still is — even when age insists on a part.

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