# I'm getting money for writing!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 2, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018 "2004-08-02T20:22:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/1 "2004-08-02T20:22:36Z")
_bounces in happiness_
So, at work today (Working at a fast food joint), I’m talking to one of my cowerkers about how this is likely the type of job I’ll end up with, as I’d like to go into writing, therefore, will be very broke my entire life.
Then I got home, checked my email, and found out that a freelance essay I’d submitted to a newspaper is going to be published. For money! Fifty buckaroos for just under five hundred words.
It’s a start, right?
(also, I apologize for starting two ‘me’-centric threads so rapidly, but, hey, I think it’s worthy.)
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/2 "2004-08-02T20:33:31Z")
Hey, congratulations! What newspaper?
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### Author:  [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/3 "2004-08-02T21:25:14Z")
Yahoo! Good for you! 🙂
Yes, what **Hal** said. More details.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/4 "2004-08-02T23:10:16Z")
Way to go! Congratulations. May you sell many more. (Oh, and details, I agree that we need more details. The subject would be a good start.)
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/5 "2004-08-03T00:08:10Z")
Good job!
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/6 "2004-08-03T01:45:30Z")
What wonderful news! It is a wonderful feeling, is it not? Do tell us more about the article!
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### Author:  [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/7 "2004-08-03T02:35:40Z")
That is soooooooooooooo great! Congratulations! I’ve been freelancing for years and there is still nothing like having a story accepted for publication. Wait until you get the check!!! I always hold it behind myself like a tail and do the “they paid me dance”.
Do tell us more about the story.
You do so rock!
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/8 "2004-08-03T03:56:49Z")
It’s going to be in the Philadelphia Inquirer (which has a gi-normous circulation, and the idea of anywhere close to that number of people reading something I wrote is either uber-cool or uber-terrifying!) on a Sunday this month. It’s a “personal journey” in the travel section, basically written about a backpacking trip I went on.
Sorry, but I’m not going to give you guys the exact details - for I must keep my Secret Identity ™ secret. Warrenty’s expired, you know, and even though I’ve got a paycheck coming my way, I can’t quite afford to replace it yet… 🙂
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/9 "2004-08-03T03:58:03Z")
D’oh…proofread. Also, thank you all for the congrats and whatnot. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/10 "2004-08-03T09:48:30Z")
Are the opening words…‘It was a dark and stormy night…’?
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### Author:  [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/11 "2004-08-03T10:39:53Z")
Oh wow! Well done!
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/12 "2004-08-03T14:28:20Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
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> Are the opening words…‘It was a dark and stormy night…’?
Alas, no, they are not. But I believe I do mention a thunderstorm in there, somewhere…
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/13 "2004-08-03T14:58:17Z")
That will do **NinjaChick**. That will do.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/14 "2004-08-03T15:08:14Z")
Woohoo. Congratulations.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/15 "2004-08-03T15:16:18Z")
Muhahaha! You’ve fallen right into my trap, **NinjaChick**! A Sunday _Philadelphia Inquirer_ article about backpacking and mentioning a thunderstorm…_more_ than enough information to finally uncover your secret identity!
Let me reiterate: Muhahahahaaaa!! 😃
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### Author:  [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/16 "2004-08-03T15:39:25Z")
Weeheehee! Congradulations! And many more paying gigs your way!
(From a fellow freelancer)
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/17 "2004-08-03T17:31:41Z")
Congratulations! May you have many more sales.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-money-for-writing/258018/18 "2004-08-03T20:09:37Z")
It’s a great feeling, isn’t it? Turns you into an addict real fast. 🙂
Congratulations.