The Signal boost Poem has been updated with Ysabet and Rion’s signal boost couplets here.
Signal boost the A-Z Giraffe Call and let me know, to unlock more verses!
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Finch wrote this to my prompt.
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stryck‘s prompt “Kleptomania,” and @KissofJudas’ prompt “Karma, and what comes of it.
He liked to steal.
Kyrie had started small – pens and school supplies, cookies and lunch. He had been eight, then.
By high school, he’d moved on to small jewelry at the mall, and pick-pocketing in crowded places. By the time he graduated, he had three pawn shops that fenced his stuff for him, and an incredibly nice apartment in a building owned by one of the pawn owners.
Kyrie had a short attention span, and moved quickly on from small-change stuff to bigger things. Burgling houses was no fun – he liked the human contact, the actual threat and challenge of things where he could, at any moment, get seriously caught.
(Not that he wanted to get caught. Not that he’d liked it, the couple times early on when he had. He was still banned from the biggest mall in town – not that they ever noticed him, now, when he came in. Stolen gold necklaces bought a lot of nice clothes and a new haircut.)
Burgling the houses of the wealthy when they were home, now, that was fun. Tons of fun. Slipping in and out again while they watched TV, while they argued, while they fucked the cabana boy…
…that had been his mistake. The fucking (ha) cabana boy.
And now, now Kyrie was caught again. Now he was caught, and the fucking (ha, ha) rich cougar lady was, oh, fuck, a rich Cougar lady. These knots around his wrists and ankles were awfully tight, and the woman was licking her lips and, gods help him, purring, purring at him. Cougars couldn’t purr, could they?
“Karma’s a bitch, isn’t it?”
“Sorry, ma’am?” He swallowed hard. Her teeth were sharp!
“You’ve been stealing for a while, I think, haven’t you?”
“A little while,” he allowed.
“And now I’ve stolen you.”
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Weeklies
Tasty Tuesday: Butternut Soup
WebLit Wednesday: K.A.Jones (LJ)
Side Story Saturday: No-one said it would be easy ()
Other Personal Stuff
Lampshades, Lasers, and Lobster, oh my (Personal foo)
How to stock Your Disaster Pantry (link)
Signal Boosts
ItsaMella’s Icon Day (LJ)
K Orion Fray’s April Prompt Call
Finch’s Iron Poet
We are $10 from the next incentive level and All Prompts Will be Written.
Prompts from A-Z (LJ)
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I
Signal Boost Poem: The Works of Thorne from A-Z (LJ)
Last Giraffe Calls
Fae Apoc:
Monsters (LJ)
Why Swords (LJ)
Other:
The Black Tower and its Council (LJ)
Questioned (LJ)
Veils (LJ)
Mud Fight (LJ), Stranded World, after Ax Fight.
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itsamellama‘s Icon Day is still open!
The tip total is at: $38.25. If it reached $50, everyone’s icons will be inked. If it reaches $100, everyone’s icon will be in color.
Go request an icon! Go tip if you can! 🙂
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Today’s Weblit Wednesday Guest Post comes from kajones_writing.
Lyn has, since I first started writing weblit and crowdfunding, been one of my inspirations. I remember the first time I donated to any crowdfunding project was when she was trying to get money to help Drake with his diabetes. (When I heard he’d passed away I cried.) Back then I didn’t know anything about the settings she wrote in, or much at all about what she did, so after a quick look through what she did I asked her to write me a story in her Tir na Cali setting – I couldn’t resist the kitties. I still love Cali, but now I know more about the writing Lyn does, and I do occasionally write fanfic for her, I read stories from many of her setting.
It is thanks, in part, to Lyn that I decided to follow in her footsteps by not only crowdfunding but by writing in a number of different settings. I call them collections, because they keep growing, and the thing I’ve found with weblit is that having someone post a comment or tell you they enjoy what you’re writing helps plot bunnies to reproduce. Before I started posting on the DreamWidth and Livejournal accounts I first used they were bad enough, but I don’t regret a thing. Writing more is one of the best thing that’s come out of writing web lit.
Fantasy is one of my favourite genres, because I can world build. World building is something I love, although I may have gone a little overboard with one of my readers’ favourite collections, the World Walkers collection. It’s about people who can travel the worlds of the fae built Web, the races of those worlds, and the worlds themselves, because they’re sentient. One of the things I love about weblit is how easy it is to work with other people, so I have two worlds that are created by other people, and I’d be really happy to have more. To learn more about my worlds check out my Beginner’s Guide .
This year I’m attempting to post at least 500 words a day, because I was forced to take an unplanned hiatus last year due to some family issues. I want to increase my audience for two reasons: I love writing for people, which is why I have prompt sessions; and I want to be able to make a living doing what I love. Crowdfunding means I can experiment with ways of earning money, so I do different things to see what works, and two of my favourite creations are character adoptions and setting rentals. Adopt a character and get a story, in PDF format, of a word count of your choice (currently a maximum of 4000 words) about that character sent to you, which can last for a maximum of six months. Rent a setting and get a story, again in PDF format, of a word count of your choice (currently a maximum of 6000 words) about that setting sent to you, which may also last up to six months. The word counts can be split, depending on what you want.
I’m also writing a serial. It’s set in the World Walkers collection, on a world that was created by Elizabeth Barrette and she wrote the plot. Writing the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments has been an eye opener for me. Having someone else write a plot has been great for me, because it means I don’t feel like I’ve already written the story which is how I feel if I write out a plot line for myself, even though I’ve already gone way over my planned word count (sticking to a specific word count has always been a problem for me). It’s something I would happily do again if I had the chance, especially as it’s given me more ideas for stories within the collection. I post a new part every Monday and Thursday, I have plans for bonus stories, and I’ve started a side story about one of the characters in the serial, which is something I’m experimenting with by only posting more words if I get donations.
Web lit has been wonderful for me as both a reader and a writer. It gives me a chance to write for both myself and my readers, which is something I attempt to make as simple as possible by adding a write more button at my website. It gives me a chance to read things that might not exist if there wasn’t such a thing as web lit.
Read K.A.Jones’ writing on Dreamwidth, on her website, or on Tumblr.
Want me to highlight your weblit or someone else’s on Weblit Wednesday? Send me an e-mail!
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I’ve gotten 11 prompters and 2 donations, bringing the total to 13 prompts to be written this time.
We’re $10 from the wood for the foyer, and $25 from a randomly-chosen second story for someone ($50 from every donator getting a third prompt)
Tell your friends! Donate a buck or two! Come prompt if you haven’t already! I’d really like to get up to 26 and be able to do the non-English-Alphabet prompts as well!
Prompts Already Written:
A – B – C – D – E – F
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itsamellama is holding another icon day!
Icons are free, tipping opens up higher levels of incentives.
Icons itsamellama have drawn for me are:
Ahouva
Llew
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I am contemplating (unsurprisingly) a Giraffe Call this weekend.
Because of the April A-Z thing, I’m thinking of trying to to an A-Z giraffe call, but I’m having a bit of trouble with logistics.
Issues:
1. I don’t normally get 26+ prompters, but I normally write 1 prompt/prompter unless donations occur
2. Comments across two+ platforms (LJ/DW, sometimes Twitter)
3. Many people leave multiple prompts, meaning I can’t just say “leave a prompt in the letter after the person above you.”
4. Smartasses.
Thoughts on solutions:
* Suggest if people leave multiple prompts, they do so over a letter range that does not completely overlap with the person above them. I.e., ie person 1. does a, b, and c, person 2. should do b, c, d, and e.
* Have a list of letters in the Call and cross out letters as I receive three or more prompts to each.
* Have other ways to get a second prompt written than just donations (Signal boosts, up to three?)
* Suggesting that if one is going to leave a letter prompt in another alphabet, one must leave considerable linked backup.
* itsamellama has suggested having an unlockable/incentive if we reach all 26 letters.
Thoughts on what it should be?
Thoughts?
Not worth it, try something else?
Why are you still bothering with this at all?
Moo?
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Djinni finished up the most recent batch of icons!
Oligarchy!
Kyle, from Addergoole: Year 9
Ce’Rilla and Vidrou, children of Ag:9 (and therafter) characters.
Also Addergoole’s Cutest Couple Ever.
Vidrou is mostly @inventrix’s character.
So!
Djinni has Another Free Icon Day Open!
Go ahead and go request yours. I’ll wait.
Done? Cool. Don’t forget to tip if you have a little to spare. I’ll wait.
Tipped? Cool. NOW. Who should I request?
My thought is: one Addergoole character (Probably Eluned, Jovanna, or Akaterina),
one currently-active fiction character for another ‘verse,
and one… I dunno, just-for-fun?
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