The price I paid
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My decade of writing short stories Writers rarely tell you how much they earn, other than the well-known authors we never break even. I will give you a ballpark estimate of what my decade has cost me, I can't do any better as I never kept an account book as it is hard to keep accounts; when you earn less than $1 a month it is not worth the trouble. I would estimate that taking into account the price of the editing software and the cost of running my blog on Weebly , plus the cost of my only book cover. I must have paid out close to $1,000 dollars, and what was my return, less than 5% of my outlay, is it any wonder I am giving up this year?