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I made $7.19 writing 78 articles in 2020
… you may not understand why this is a big deal
For years, I wrote hundreds of thought pieces on Facebook Notes and posted them on my wall for public viewing. A few of my over 2,000 Facebook friends connected with these articles so much that if there was a lull in publication, they would send me personal (often heartfelt) messages asking if I was fine and why the radio silence. On more than one occasion, I have had strangers call me to tell me how something I wrote inspired them in one way or another. For the most part of 10 years, I published a yearly average of 50 notes (that is what Facebook calls them.) The themes and topics were as widely varying as the distorted thoughts in my head. They ranged from quasi-poetry to thought pieces to short stories. Whatever pinched my curiosity enough to survive my attention deficit timespan made it to the pages of scrap paper, or notes on my phone, and eventually Facebook then the deluge of sharers and commenters and likers would follow.
One of those posts bordered on going viral with hundreds of shares and thousands of likes. The article was a personal account of being a full house husband for 8 weeks. In that piece, I shared my personal thoughts on why African men would stay humble if they experienced half of what their wives were going through. In the comment section, which…
