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I Used To Be Paid Peanuts But Now I Don’t Even Get That

A photo essay of my Medium earnings

MaryClare StFrancis
4 min readSep 30, 2023
Photo by Camila Levita on Unsplash

I must have either pissed off some of the bigwigs at Medium, or else I failed the popularity contest (as usual). I suspect it’s the latter, because I’m not good at popularity contests. I mean I was the kid in primary school who tried so hard to do something bad enough to serve detention for just so that I would fit in with a group of people, at least for lunch.

Take a look at these abysmal earnings and the pathetic picture the screenshots show.

Screen shot of my earnings. These particular articles are from August 2023.

These three articles were hard to write, and used a fair bit of emotional energy. I’m glad that I wrote them and I hope that they will help someone else realize that they don’t have to shoulder the burden of accidentally killing someone alone. At the same time, it would have been really nice to have made some money off of them after all the effort I put into them.

Another screen shot of earnings from my August 2023 articles.

“Carnival Of The Depraved” took weeks to write, and hours to edit, and it…

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MaryClare StFrancis
MaryClare StFrancis

Written by MaryClare StFrancis

I write memoir, nonfiction essays, and poetry

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