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Income and Identity
when i did my taxes earlier this year, in spite of the first conditions i got to crush down a new occupation as the source of some of my proceeds: “writer.”ok, it possibly should be suffering with been the 2nd linger i did this, but i had so little ad income in 2006, i forgot to settle accounts include it. oops! given that i’m donating the blog proceeds to charities anyway, i’m not growing to lose any sleep over it, and hope the irs won’t either! but this year, even though it unruffled wasn’t a ton of money, i remembered to declare my blogging income, and felt more proud of myself when my accountant said she’d inventory “writer” as a job on my return. (and of path she immediately started thinking which expenses to services to offset that takings– internet access, for anybody.)it’s not like i’m doing this blog for in dough, but somehow it’s kind of neat to feel like i can call myself a newsman. i’ve always felt weird labeling myself an “artist” or a “writer,” as opposed to “someone who likes to portray and paint sometimes” or “someone who keeps a journal and has done a few correspondence workshops but would be too embarrassed to ever consider actually trying to leak something.” i’ve till the end of time felt like a dabbler, not someone who “really” did these things, and certainly not someone who could be considered to do them professionally.it’s weird: i know someone who defines herself as a writer and devotes a lot of time to it. she’s published a book of poetry and in all probability made less money from it than i’ve made from this blog. of programme naturally, there is a discrepancy between being paid for one’s writing, and being paid to attract eyeballs to advertisements, and last i heard no one was worrying to advertise payday loans in the back of poetry books. but still, even if some of the satisfy here is just links and brief commentary, i eat done a part of writing upward of the last almost 3 years, and a lot of people have read it. that it has made some money provides a certain validation, but i’d feel good with reference to it even if it hadn’t brought in a penny.the weird thing is that the only way i’ve been able to do this is to write anonymously. sometimes the “real me” wants to say “hey, lookit, i’m getting paid to be a writer” but i can’t!
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