I love this way of looking at it. My first novel was crap – I just didn’t know it.

But the only way to advance through the levels is to write.

Keep writing!

Congratulations on winning this week! If you have content to promote, please let me know what two links you’d like to have pinned at the top of Sunday’s announcement.

Keep writing!

What’s the purpose of the megathread? I’m so confused what’s going on with this community…

What are you upset about? $0/hr is a generous salary.

I write a blog on Medium.

You need to have a ton of content to make any amount of money. After writing 200 articles, I started making a consistent $100/month. Not quitting my day job any time soon, but I have a lot of downtime at work, so it’s a productive way to pass the time.

Oh, and the $100/month is pretty consistent. I took a month off from writing, and they still sent me money for the read time on my old articles. The pay is low… but my boss wouldn’t send me a small stipend if I decided not to show up for a month. So, I really can’t complain.

Bosses hate this one. The things they’ll do for a full office…

When you order something with 2-day delivery, it not only needs to be in stock… but it needs to be in a warehouse in your city. This requirement means there needs to be a surplus.

They don’t know where the orders will come in, so they make enough to send them to every warehouse in the country. But if all of them got sold, the supply would drive the price down. So, they wait until a certain number gets sold (say… a few hundred) and then destroy the rest.

It’s sickening that this is even a thing. But that’s the world we live in.

Thanks for the feedback – I’m really excited about starting this community, and I think I overdid it on the promotion 😬

“Bilingual” is really hard to define.

I live in Taiwan (English is my native language), and have studied Chinese to be passably fluent. I can trick people into thinking I can follow advanced conversations, interjecting comments here or there (even though I’m mostly lost – just picking out the tidbits I do understand and commenting on them).

But am I bilingual? At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter. What matters the most is whether your level is “good enough” to do what you want! In my case, I just want to be able to go to the store, buy things, and hang out with friends. I can read the newspaper, but I’ll never be able to read/write business contracts – but that’s not a goal of mine.

There are so many different shades of bilingual. Don’t worry about it… and just be as good as you need to reach your goals!

Welcome aboard! I really hope this commumity provides the support you need. Keep writing!

With great power comes great responsibility

I don’t cry when I chop onions. If I’m chopping dozens of them, everyone needs to get out of the kitchen because the air will get potent (but I won’t notice).

Weird, I must have messed something up when uploading my images. I merged everything into one – I hope you can see it this time! (Oh, and thanks for letting me know about the problem!)

Never tried it… but I should!!

Ooh, sounds amazing!

Peanut butter and cheese.

Peanut butter and pickles.

Peanut butter and raw onion slices.

Peanut butter and tuna fish.

I’ve tried peanut butter combined with the strangest pairings I can imagine. They’ve all been excellent.

Going to college.

I grew up in a cult, and I seem to have suppressed most of my childhood. Of course, I have bits and pieces – like little flashbacks from my childhood days – but I don’t really have a coherent childhood story. From college onwards is when my life story makes sense to me.

I’m pretty sure that’s a quote from Confucius.

I always have one with me in case I enter a shop that has a sign up asking patrons to wear a mask. I used to wear them religiously, but 3 years is enough. Although I respect everyone who still keeps their masks on…

Phone, keys, headphones, wallet, loose change, pen, mask, portable battery pack.

At least, that’s what’s in my pockets this very moment. Not including trash (random receipts, etc)