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I Earned a Surreal 7.30 Dollars Last Month

What’s next?

Debdutta Pal
3 min readJun 8, 2023
An outstretched arm on a white table picking one of two lemons present.
Me trying to make some lemonade. Pinteresty photo borrowed from SHVETS production.

May was a successful month. Not numbers wise as you can already see in the very original title, but in terms of setting goals and finishing them.

I wrote (almost) every day. I didn’t let self-doubt/consciousness hold me back from reaching out. I read and commented more than ever leading to happy highs. And most importantly, I didn’t hit delete on the weird stuff.

This isn’t the most I’ve made in a month, but, I’ve finally gained some semi-regular readers who show up, read and encourage. And It’s been surreal.

Honestly? I don’t know why anyone wants to read my work.

Maybe you are a breed of sapio-masochists from the future.

Anyways, who am I to question the mysterious ways in which Medium works? But, all of a sudden, I do feel the need to do right by you.

Here’s what you should expect from me:

  • Humor is my Girl Friday. And when you work for yourself every day can be Friday. If you hate laughing then look out for this tag.
  • Fiction & Poetry. Have I ever mentioned that I minored in English? The literature nerd still lives and won’t stop until I get better.
  • A lot about Writing, because that is our…

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Debdutta Pal
Debdutta Pal

Written by Debdutta Pal

I'd rather be watching Netflix.

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