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How to Make a Living as a Writer

Horse stories in the morning, erotica in the afternoon

I knew I was no longer able to do most of the jobs I’d had in high school or when I was an undergrad: I couldn’t work as a barista, my forearms too weak to tamp down espresso grounds; nor in retail, nor as a waitress, as the weight of my own dinner plate at home was enough to make me wince with pain. As I settled into my new city, I was shown the ropes of this strange job: how to use the monitoring software, how to identify stories worth including in the newsletter, who the big players in Horse World were. Since I was doing this with voice-to-text, I had to keep my windows closed, mortified at the thought of my neighbours hearing me speak vile things into my computer: words like member, length, girth, and sometimes the names of fruit.

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