Payment Means More than the Money
Having established my blogger post early in the century (that makes me sound old), I was not in it to make money, but to share my views and interpretations of the world. Fast forward to 2021, in which a person can talk about whatever he or she wants, and get paid for it!
After years of posting a little here, and a little there, imagine my surprise when I received a notice that I had received payment for my blog, via Stripe! I have been a writer all my life, sometimes being paid for it, and sometimes just for fun.
I've written stories on the back of business notepads, told tales to my daughters at bedtime, have written a non-published children's story, and have two or three novel ideas floating around in my head. I have a bachelor of journalism from the University of Texas. I've written thousands of blogposts on everything from wicker furniture to dental implants to CARF accreditation, hundreds of news releases for churches, the medical industry and businesses all over the world. Recently, my byline can be found at highlandlakesofburnetcounty.com, with articles about lodging and city highlights in Burnet County, Texas. And I also started another blog, on Medium, with only one post (https://alecia-ormsby.medium.com/the-blessings-of-a-fire-e261708f4454), with more to come.
My life has become complicated lately, or rather, more complicated, so I haven't had much time to spend on writing, but I found an hour today and decided to share. It's not the money that made me happy, but the fact that enough people looked at what I wanted to tell whomever is interested that I received a whopping payment of $0.04 directly to my bank account!
