TIL that back in July, I got a $12.85 #royalty check. That's for about a year's worth of sales.

Guess I'm not going to be retiring to live the fabulous life movies assure us #writers have after their Big Break. Scrimp and suffer and starve until ... ta da! You make that all-important sale and then you're rolling around cackling and naked on piles of cash.

Well, I grew up in a #writing household, so I've known for a long time that's not how it works. Once upon a time I had what I thought was a realistic hope of supporting myself on my writing income, but I gave up expecting it a long time ago—

—and this is the first writing money of *any* amount I've received in over twenty years. Feels like a win to me.