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All The Things That $50,000 Can’t Buy

So just keep calm and carry on.

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If you're like me (and who isn’t??), you’re obsessing over who’s going to win the $50,000 Grand Prize in the Medium Writers Challenge. That’s a hunk o’ cash, a lot of moolah, a whole buncha Benjis, a lotta lettuce, a —

You get the idea.

And no, I don’t think the Grand Prize Winner will also necessarily receive the $10,000 top prize in a category. I’m not going to waste my time reading the Publishers Clearinghouse-like rules again, but I don’t see why they couldn’t pick four $10,000 winners and then somebody else who they think is better than all of them. Spread the love, so to speak.

That much money is life-changing, but it’s also akin to inheriting a fortune from a distant relative you didn’t know you had. It’s nice if you get it, but you weren’t really planning on it and there’s no point in thinking about it until it happens.

Also, and I hate to tell you this, but they may have already told the winners that they’re winners — it’s not like you find out at the same time as everybody else when you win something huge like that. They tell you, and then they swear you to secrecy. So as not to ruin it for everybody else, LOL.