Tuesday, February 10th

The State of the Me

Went to bed a little late last night, but slept well and woke up well. I'm starting my status post at 11 instead of 10 mostly because I decided to try something new with my daily exercise.

The Daily Report

I had an interesting notion for how to handle the story I'm currently calling Project Lucidity, which is to post it directly to my Patreon feed as a regular feature with mostly locked posts, with the occasional unlocked one to serve as free samples. When a story arc is concluded, I can compile it, clean it up and offer it for sale. This approach has multiple advantages: more value for Patreon supporters, and no website to create or maintain for me.

I'll still be including a preview of this in the next newsletter, though any number of things may change in the draft between then and when I start posting them, which I think will be the first week in March.

Plans For Today

I should make a post about the state of the chapbook project. After that, I think I'm going to do some free writing, followed by working on Tales of MU. I have a lot of energy today without a lot of direction, so I think I'm just going to write, write, write.

Angels of the Meanwhile Update

This is an update post on the status of the chapbook Angels of the Meanwhile, being assembled to benefit popelizbet (Elizabeth R. McClellan).

I have received a number of submissions of both poetry and prose, enough that I feel comfortable beginning to assemble them and put them into some sort of prospective order. This does not mean that submissions are closed. If you would still like to be included in the booklet, please just let me know by February 20th.

Once I have a tentative table of contents, I'll get a pre-order site set up, with the caveat that the contents of the book may change at any point up to actual publication.

Why a pre-order? Some of the material that was offered has rights issues that will lapse at various points in the month of march, and some people have pledged original works that will take a bit longer to put together (for obvious reasons) then reprints. This coupled with the fact that there have been some offers of original artwork is why we've decided to do a pre-order. It's a question of something thrown together that offers nothing new and is just bare-bones, versus something that holds a greater value.

I don't feel comfortable creating the pre-order site before I can offer a tentative table of contents, but for those who want to jump in with both feet as I have done in creating this project can send a contribution to Lizbet through PayPal now... since we'll be doing a pay-what-you-can model for this, everybody who has contributed will be offered the finished chapbook.