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My $1000 Blog Post
No, you got it wrong. It cost me $1000. And counting…
If someone told me back in August, when I posted the blog-post, that it would cost me $1000 by mid-December, I would have said: “Nah, don’t want that!”
Actually, it’s over $1200 as you read this, I just rounded it down for you.
The Beginning
It all started on a beautiful spring day in 1976. When a chubby and happy boy came to see the light of day. This was in Tønsberg, Norway’s oldest city. Home of the Vikings.
Let’s forward a bit
This January, in the year-we-do-not-mention, I started blogging.
As a paying subscriber (aka reader) for two years on Medium, I had devoured everything. Mostly articles on writing and flash fiction /short fiction stories.
A fantasy short-story idea had been churning in the back of my head for some time, but I didn’t want to write it in Norwegian. I am an avid reader of English literature, but reading doesn’t automatically translate into writing well. Unfortunately.
So I started blogging.
It was probably the best way of learning the language, and the immediate feedback when I put my words “out there” gave me the tools I needed to improve, immensely…