dmorin's Journal: A little pocket money

Got a magazine article proposal accepted today, I'm excited. I wrote a bunch of these a few years ago and discovered that it's easier than you might think. I just wanted to be published, wrote a letter to the editor of a new tech magazine saying "I have experience with ____, would you like an article?" and it turned into a small series. Now that I'm soon to be out of work I decided to see if it was still possible. It's harder now, but I'm happy that my proposal got accepted (no guarantee of publication, but thus far my hit rate has been excellent).

Ya can't make a living on it (unless you're a professional writer), but a few extra bucks in the pocket never hurt. Except at tax time.

Updated: I just discovered that in another sign of the unemployment times, many technical magazines are not paying cash for articles. They're claiming that just being published is compensation enough. Ug. So I guess I don't get any cool computer toys from this deal.