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Patreon: Thresholds and Liminal places; Laying the Foundation (repost)

Jan3

The poll has spoken!

The theme for January is Thresholds and Liminal Spaces. For a $5/month pledge, you can leave all the prompts you want.

Doorways literal and figurative, steps into new lives, leaving beyond the old – it’s a good theme for a new year.

Prompt Here

This was originally posted on February 15, 2012; it’s an early-ish story of Stranded world and it involves both thresholds and transitions.

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“I think you should come hang out next weekend,” Calgary told Autumn, over the last beer of the last day of Faire. “Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur are building a house.”

“Seriously?” she raised an eyebrow. She was far too drunk to be polite when faced with that.

Calgary grinned, and quaffed her beer. “Three friends of mine, been together since college. Not Faire folk but fair folk, if you know what I mean…

Read Here

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New Year New Poll – Patreon Theme Poll for January

Dec30

Time for a new poll for a new theme for a new year!

Check out my Patreon and tell me what you want to see there in January.

This poll will close around nine p.m. eastern time, 1/2/2017. If you don’t have a DreamWidth account, you can vote in the comments.

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December Patreon Theme Poll!

Dec4

Welcome to December! In the Northern Hemisphere, Winter is nearly here, and I think it might already be Summer in Australia.

And I have a Patreon! (Here: patreon.com/aldersprig) And each month I have a poll to determine what I’ll be writing about in that Patreon for the month.

The theme then opens up a prompt call for all Director-level donors (I made up some names. I’m still working on them). And then I start writing!

Don’t have a Dreamwidth account? Vote in the comments.

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October Patreon Theme Poll!

Sep29

It’s that time again!

Time to decide what my Patreon theme will be for October; time to cast your vote and make it count.

It’s time to look at spooks and creepy people, monsters and fairies, costumes and false faces. It’s time to dig into your urban legend stock and decide exactly how spooky you want your Hallowe’en to be.

My Patreon is here. Every month I post:
1 free short-short story
1 locked short-short story
1 locked long short story

We’re just $3 from getting back to the Serial Story milestone, where poor Nimbus has been stuck in the middle of a deadly plant for months! And a $5 pledge will let you prompt in all the prompt calls….

Vote now, pledge if you can, read either way. 🎃

If you don’t have a DW account, feel free to vote in the comments.

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September Patreon Theme Poll!

Aug29

It’s nearly September, and with the hopefully-dropping mercury around here (does anyone use mercury anymore? Or is it all digital? Or are the digital thermometers mercury? Hrrm, I wonder what they use in Reiassan…)

ANYway

With the hopefully-dropping temperatures comes Yet Another Patreon Poll!

This poll determines the Patreon prompt call (at the $5 patron level), which then determines the stories posted to Patreon (One is always free-for-everyone-to-read).

Want to check out my Patreon? Look here.

Want to check out my settings before voting? Check them out here.

If you don’t have a Dreamwidth account, you can vote in the comments.

This poll will remain open until Friday evening, 9/2/2016.

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August Patreon Theme Poll!

Aug1

It’s August! When did that happen?

Well, I might have been asleep, but it’s still time for the August Patreon Theme Poll!

This poll determines the Patreon prompt call (at the $5 patron level), which then determines the stories posted to Patreon (One is always free-for-everyone-to-read).

Want to check out my Patreon? Look here.

Want to check out my settings before voting? Check them out here.

If you don’t have a Dreamwidth account, you can vote in the comments.

This poll will remain open until Friday evening, 8/5/2016.

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Jun29

Hey, all, it’s time to pick the July Patreon Theme!

Each month, y’all pick a theme, and from there I write several stories posted to my Patreon (One is always free-for-everyone).

Want to check out my Patreon? Look here.
For just $1, you can read all the Patreon stories; for $5/month, you can prompt in the prompt calls! (for $7/month you get a private story!)

Don’t have Dreamwidth account? Please feel free to vote in the comments.

For setting information, check out here.

This poll will close on 7/2/2016 at 7:02 p.m. Eastern time (or so).

This entry was originally posted at http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/1135544.html. You can comment here or there. comment count unavailable

June Patreon Theme: Reiassan

Jun2

The poll has closed, and June’s Patreon theme is Reiassan!

Home of Rin & Girey, Edally Academy, goat-riding Calenyena and the Bitrani that just can’t win, Reiassan is a setting spanning thousands of years and an entire continent and then some.

And you can read more of it!

Think about it this way.

For $1/month, you’re getting $40 worth of my writing – and for everyone else who pledges, that amount goes up. It’s a magazine subscription, but one with no ads, where you get to vote on the content monthly.

For $5/month, you’re on the editorial board. YOU tell me what to write. YOU pick characters and themes and even pregnant forests for the serials. YOU pick characters for me to commission art of. You’re in the driver’s seat.

And if you like that, for $7/month, you can have your own super-secret story, written only for people at that prompting level (Be the first! Pick your very own story!)

Want even MORE exclusivity? Pledge $15/month and it’ll be like commissioning your own very story – a short piece of fiction ONLY for you.

Check it out!
Every pledge made gets us close to all patrons having more words in their inbox each month!

Icons by djinni (1st & last 2), [personal profile] inventrix (3rd), [personal profile] itsamellama (4th) and [deviantart.com profile] ev1ct-cm

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June Patreon Theme Poll

May27

Hey, all, it’s time to pick the June Patreon Theme!

Each month, y’all pick a theme, and from there I write several stories posted to my Patreon (One is always free-for-everyone).

Want to check out my Patreon? Look here.
For just $1, you can read all the Patreon stories; for $5/month, you can prompt in the prompt calls! (for $7/month you get a private story!)

Don’t have Dreamwidth? Please feel free to vote in the comments.

For setting information, check out here.

This poll will close on 6/1/2016 at 6:01 p.m. Eastern time (or so).

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