Cheque, Mate

Sooo… just popped over and read Nick’s Veg­etable post and I sud­denly remem­bered something:

I got my Out­post cheque in the mail a cou­ple of days ago! Duh, how could I for­get to write that up on here? I know I’ve felt a lit­tle very over­whelmed with life at the moment, but really… I for­got to spout that?

It’s the first time I have received pay­ment for one of my sto­ries, so it’s a big deal for me per­son­ally. It kind of solid­i­fies that I’ve actu­ally been pub­lished. It was online — as opposed to paper — but I (unlike some) do not find a dif­fer­ence in that. To be (paid &) pub­lished by a lit­er­ary ‘else’ is pub­lished, plain and simple.

I was going to scan it and put a pic­ture up… you know — nos­tal­gia. But then I fig­ured, once I have redacted all of the infor­ma­tion I don’t want float­ing about the inter­nets, it wouldn’t be much of an image, so eh.

The only thing now is, do I deposit it or not? Is the mon­e­tary value worth more than the sym­bol­ism of what it means to me per­son­ally? Alter­na­tively I could just scan it into an image, then get that sweet moolah :D

  • http://notenoughwords.wordpress.com/ Mer­rilee Faber

    Con­grat­u­la­tions!

    Cash it, of course. You’re a real writer, and there will be plenty more. No need to wor­ship it ;)

  • http://5-rings.com Nick Enlowe

    I say cash it, but take a pic­ture of it first. You can have some­body else take the photo while you’re hold­ing it and doing a thumbs up or something.

  • http://www.theamphoraproject.com/ christo­pher.

    I vote that you scan it and have it blown up. Then, put it on a big piece of card­board before tak­ing a pic­ture with it. There’s always some­thing awe­some about hav­ing a HUGE check.

  • http://www.theamphoraproject.com/ christo­pher.

    So…what ever did you do with that check? :P

  • http://rgsanders.com RG Sanders

    Good Q. I for­got about it (as you tend to do when a par­ent — on many a sub­ject) but I did see it on my desk the other day and asked myself that very question;

    “What am I going to do with this cheque?”

    Thanks for ask­ing all the same ;)