Is it strange to say that a 17th century woman is one of my heroes? That my goal has always been, just like Behn, to be a woman who makes a living by her pen. And these past few weeks something has actually been happening on that front. A royalty cheque arrived for the first three of my Classic Starts (Little Women, Frankenstein and Robinson Crusoe), and yesterday a cheque arrived from Taddle Creek for my poem “April” that appeared in their last issue.
Getting paid for poetry is awesome. Getting paid for writing I did five years ago is also kind of thrilling. But being able to pay for my Humber course without going into debt? Awesome.
That *is* awesome.
I’m afraid the only writing I was doing 5 years ago was for term papers…
Congratulations!
Congratulations. Writing because you love to is one thing – receiving a cheque in the mail makes it all that much sweeter…
Not the point of the post, but Aphra Behn’s The Rover is my most favourite play ever.