The Million Dollar Poetry Project

Coming from the forums of a certain website I won’t name at this point. Certain folks seem bound and determined to hate this whole ‘write a million dollars worth of poetry’ idea.

“You’re not selling a real product or service!”

Excuse me? I’m not only writing the poem (a service that’s also a product as an intellectual property), I’m also providing the service of paying for advertising for the link of their choice for a minimum of five years (also a service if I’m not mistaken). It’s almost as if they got so angry reading the idea that they didn’t bother getting past the first few sentences. Ah, well, that’s their right - to be wrong. Not to be arrogant here or anything, but when a person leaves a comment such as “Sounds like you need a loan” or “Why don’t you buy such and such”, they quite clearly missed the meaning of the term ’starving artist’.

I suppose I’m not making a big enough pity party out of it, but I don’t intend to. I intend to write the best poems I can for a dollar a line and deliver far more in terms of quality. I want to EARN the million dollars. It’s not the money that I care about, it’s the pride of being able to say that I earned it myself through services I offered that other people wanted to pay for.

And that’s my soap box.

Oh, here’s the press release if you care to see it. I won’t be angry if you decide to socially bookmark it or anything, don’t worry!

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