Our journey to sell our Christmas script, A Galatic Christmas I know what you are probably thinking, “The Squid Game for Struggling Writers”? What the hell is that? Some crappy knock off about lazy writers that play life-threatening versions of Wordle at the local Starbucks? Well, no it’s not, but…

Fitting that my last month on Medium will also be my worst month ever as far as earnings go. News Break is about five times as much so far this…

and the rest of them that are leaving the shithole that is Medium I’ve been slowly making lists of all my stuff on Medium that I plan on moving to News Break. Medium is really just a shitty tool I use now to move my work to News Break. I made this list a few days ago and now I’m putting together a list of all my short stories from 2017–2019. https://medium.com/squid-game-hustle/all-my-short-stories-that-will-end-up-on-newsbreak-2020-2023-ccfe46cbdc82

Absolutely zero notifications today. Never seen that shit before. Medium is “better” my ass. This place is a total shithole now. Glad I’m fucking leaving in Oct.

Again, fuck Medium. As I’ve said many times before, Medium fucking hates creative writers. So, fuck them. All my short stories are going to News Break. In case you didn’t know, YOU CAN PUBLISH THEM THERE AND GET PAID!!!!!! I’ll be making a second one soon for all the short stories from 2017–2019. Another Reason to Shitcan Fucking Medium Fuck this place. Take their money and bailmedium.com Training for Purgatory A ghost storymedium.com

Now this is fucking hilarious and ironic. My best earning story of this month so far. $1.23 for this one. I didn’t bother to read Dear Leader Tony’s latest state…

Fuck this place. Take their money and bail If you don’t know yet, I just learned today, you can publish ficiton on News Break. I tried it with this short story and NB published it no problem. I did say in the title that it is a short story though. Sleeping Through the Rain: a short story | Steve B Howard | NewsBreak Original The old man had been working in his small vegetable garden when the young foreign reporter approached from the dirt…original.newsbreak.com

poem If I drop dead, a withered old man pen still in my hand and face down in my notebook I have succeeded. Even without any fame or fortune, no publishing credits, awards or honors, I have succeeded. Tenacity is a treasure all its own.

The absolute worst this shit hole has ever been.