Little more awake now.
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alexandraerinAnd fairly amused (and occasionally bemused, but not yet c or d-mused... arguably, though, I am e-mused) by the comments on the OT I posted last night.
The character of Lorellon has always existed on a conceptual level. For the longest time I toyed with the idea of having her first show up in a completely unrelated context so that any guesses as to her identity would be guesses.
I'm making some tentative plans for my second quarter fundraiser. The first quarter one started at the end of January and lasted for one week. I know the next one should last two weeks because I had people lamenting that it fell between their paydays. My previous thought had been to do it in May, but that's the month of WisCon and it would be better to know where I'm standing financially a little bit further in advance of that. So I believe I'm going to be running it in April, and because I expect it to be a little less... compelling, I suppose, than the Hazel/Dee/Steff face-off, I'm going to let it run for the month.
I don't want to proffer a further raft of incentive stories when I'm still burning off the ones from the last one... I don't think I'm going to get any complaints about how they're turning out, but I don't want to add to the top of the backlog. Even if I do one a week I've still got a month of them left. Well, I guess that wouldn't overlap too badly with a new set of them. I suppose I can start it and then see if incentives are needed to keep things in motion... I did add them after the start last time.
Perhaps instead of additional stories, I can offer answers/confirmations for lingering questions to crop up within the story? I think good incentives are an incentive for me as a writer as much as they're an incentive to the readers, and one of the things I do plan with Volume 2 is to offer a few more resolutions. Yes, I'm liking this idea.
I also want to offer a voting opportunity. I don't think there's going to be a single issue that as many people would care about as strongly as the last one that I would feel comfortable leaving up to a vote... at least not in this juncture in the story. My Q3 fundraiser or Q4 fundraiser, depending on how far the story progresses in how much time (there's another incentive for me as a writer to keep things moving) is probably going to be get a huge response. But I suppose it's probably for the best that the big ones get spread out.
Aaaaaaaand I'm realizing that it's the end of the month and I still haven't got the newsletter or subscriber list put together. I guess I'll do a double one in April to inaugurate it. This work week schedule thing will help me keep on top of things like that.
Now that I'm more awake I'm going to go make the corrections to the few typos that were reported in The Gift of the Bad Guy... these are why I haven't been pushing it more. I haven't really been at my best the past few days, and I didn't want to go messing about with the editing the text and remaking the PDFs in that state. I'm feeling better now and I have orders to fill, so I'm going to do that and then I'm going to start drawing a little more attention to the book with a sidebar ad on Tales of MU and a Project Wonderful campaign.
Not Quite Edit* To Add: Mwaha, I've figured out the poll for the Q2 fundraiser... right after I finished writing this I found my mind turning to the question of which of the major MUniverse side stories should be revived first/given the most attention as Volume 2 moves forward: Jamie's Tale, the Underworlders, or the new parallel story with the Harrises. I think that's a winner. Like the last poll I did, there are three choices that I pretty much find equally compelling, and I can't realistically do all three. The winner will become an ongoing thing, the losers won't be abandoned per se but they'll become (or remain) more like recurring OT features. Which is still better than languishing as a separate serial that's not being updated.
*Because I forgot to actually hit submit on this.
The character of Lorellon has always existed on a conceptual level. For the longest time I toyed with the idea of having her first show up in a completely unrelated context so that any guesses as to her identity would be guesses.
I'm making some tentative plans for my second quarter fundraiser. The first quarter one started at the end of January and lasted for one week. I know the next one should last two weeks because I had people lamenting that it fell between their paydays. My previous thought had been to do it in May, but that's the month of WisCon and it would be better to know where I'm standing financially a little bit further in advance of that. So I believe I'm going to be running it in April, and because I expect it to be a little less... compelling, I suppose, than the Hazel/Dee/Steff face-off, I'm going to let it run for the month.
I don't want to proffer a further raft of incentive stories when I'm still burning off the ones from the last one... I don't think I'm going to get any complaints about how they're turning out, but I don't want to add to the top of the backlog. Even if I do one a week I've still got a month of them left. Well, I guess that wouldn't overlap too badly with a new set of them. I suppose I can start it and then see if incentives are needed to keep things in motion... I did add them after the start last time.
Perhaps instead of additional stories, I can offer answers/confirmations for lingering questions to crop up within the story? I think good incentives are an incentive for me as a writer as much as they're an incentive to the readers, and one of the things I do plan with Volume 2 is to offer a few more resolutions. Yes, I'm liking this idea.
I also want to offer a voting opportunity. I don't think there's going to be a single issue that as many people would care about as strongly as the last one that I would feel comfortable leaving up to a vote... at least not in this juncture in the story. My Q3 fundraiser or Q4 fundraiser, depending on how far the story progresses in how much time (there's another incentive for me as a writer to keep things moving) is probably going to be get a huge response. But I suppose it's probably for the best that the big ones get spread out.
Aaaaaaaand I'm realizing that it's the end of the month and I still haven't got the newsletter or subscriber list put together. I guess I'll do a double one in April to inaugurate it. This work week schedule thing will help me keep on top of things like that.
Now that I'm more awake I'm going to go make the corrections to the few typos that were reported in The Gift of the Bad Guy... these are why I haven't been pushing it more. I haven't really been at my best the past few days, and I didn't want to go messing about with the editing the text and remaking the PDFs in that state. I'm feeling better now and I have orders to fill, so I'm going to do that and then I'm going to start drawing a little more attention to the book with a sidebar ad on Tales of MU and a Project Wonderful campaign.
Not Quite Edit* To Add: Mwaha, I've figured out the poll for the Q2 fundraiser... right after I finished writing this I found my mind turning to the question of which of the major MUniverse side stories should be revived first/given the most attention as Volume 2 moves forward: Jamie's Tale, the Underworlders, or the new parallel story with the Harrises. I think that's a winner. Like the last poll I did, there are three choices that I pretty much find equally compelling, and I can't realistically do all three. The winner will become an ongoing thing, the losers won't be abandoned per se but they'll become (or remain) more like recurring OT features. Which is still better than languishing as a separate serial that's not being updated.
*Because I forgot to actually hit submit on this.