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Keeping up with a bird: 010 New Beginning
11 years ago
Commissions are here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5589313/Want to help me not go hungry every month? Support me through patreon: http://www.patreon.com/Argyraspides |██████████| Mind
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Status: Been better, been worse
Before I get into what I’m going to do, I’d like to explain why I’m doing it. Very recently I was informed that my student discount on my internet service, meaning that I’m now going to have to pay about two times what I currently do to keep my internet, and no competitors are available. This leaves me with two choices: Increase my income, or abandon the fandom in search of new work. Naturally, I’ve opted to choose the former, as leaving this wonderful community over money would devastate me. I’ll cut to the chase, patreon is back on the table.
As I'm sure you've all noticed, Two Weeks hasn't been updated since February. Some of you have even asked if I've abandoned the project in favor of commissions in general, and The Vacant Years in particular. Now, while I haven't abandoned the project, I have more or less abandoned the draft that I've been posting on FA since last year. The reasons why are numerous, but here are the most important:
Money: I simply can't afford to take the time off commissions to work on it lest I wind up going hungry.
Queuing: Whenever I work on a personal project, ANY personal project, people (most of them not even commissioners...) note me telling me how much of a jerk I am making people wait on commissions while I write personal stuff. No names, but I've gotten quite a few of these messages.
Drive: I loved Two Weeks when I first started, as is often the case with a novice writer starting their first novel, but that inspiration has gradually worn away. Mostly because of...
Inconsistency: It may come as a shock to you guys, but, when I started reading Two Weeks from the beginning early this week, I was amazed how far this novel's universe had come. Unfortunately, it has evolved so far that the draft that you've all read on FA is now totally obsolete. It simply doesn't fit my current vision of the universe, and must be discarded. Here's a selection from my personal journal to explain why:
Two weeks, my long-standing babyfur novel and one of my claims to fame, has outrun its tail truly and completely. The prose is written in an obsolete style, the characters have evolved into something I never intended when I started, the universe itself is now deeper and more complex than I'd ever imagined while starting it, and, as I feel right now, it would be an insult to the themes and ideas contained within to simply pretend that these inconsistencies do not exist. They do, and they are crippling the work. Therefore, I've decided to start over from the beginning, using the crowed source funder Patreon as a means to finance it, and reward my supporters with the works in progress as I write them.
This may seem like blatant profiteering, to throw up a pay wall around something that was previously free to read, but I am presently convinced it is the only way. I mentioned using patreon previously in a recent journal, but the feedback was as much good as bad, so I've decided to go forward with it. In a nutshell, I'm doing this because Patreon would solve ALL my current problems. Finances would no longer be a concern, because Two Weeks would be actually making me money. People would stop noting me about queuing because people are actually paying for this. My lack of drive would be overcome by a strict monthly quota, and the inconsistencies that have for so long prevented me from moving on would no longer become an issue because I'll be starting over from the beginning! Two Weeks 2.0 will take everything I did well in the first draft and improve on it, using the skills that I've gained over the past year. Don't believe me? Well, I'll be posting the first three chapters free to read on FA as teasers so you can see for yourself. Subscribing to me on Patreon is easy, safe, and costs less than lunch at McDonalds. I'm asking 5$ per month to support me and gain exclusive access to my novel as it's being written, but that's not all:
New content will be uploaded every Friday, including:
- An edited and formatted PDF of one of my stories (Every Friday)
- A professionally read and produced audiobook of one of my stories (Every other Friday)
- Exclusive access to my novel, Two Weeks, and all future novels (Upload dates will vary, but the monthly word count will be consistent)
- A monthly story raffle that will be given to one of my supporters (Last Friday of every month)
- Access to all my babyfur related personal stories! (Uploaded whenever I write one, probably 1-2 per month.)
Finally, I’d like to offer special thanks to a handful of wonderful people.
rathalos1 
vexxus 
tornpup and 
yoyolizard for their extremely generous donations to my work.
toddlergirl 
swiftfox tornpup 
theunthinker and 
seifer for their critique and encouragement.
I couldn’t have done it without you.
Now, with all that said, it’s time to get started. I will begin uploading work onto patreon next Friday, and I hope to see you all there.
|██████████| Body
|██████████| Soul
|██████████| Will to Write
Status: Been better, been worse
http://www.patreon.com/ArgyraspidesBefore I get into what I’m going to do, I’d like to explain why I’m doing it. Very recently I was informed that my student discount on my internet service, meaning that I’m now going to have to pay about two times what I currently do to keep my internet, and no competitors are available. This leaves me with two choices: Increase my income, or abandon the fandom in search of new work. Naturally, I’ve opted to choose the former, as leaving this wonderful community over money would devastate me. I’ll cut to the chase, patreon is back on the table.
As I'm sure you've all noticed, Two Weeks hasn't been updated since February. Some of you have even asked if I've abandoned the project in favor of commissions in general, and The Vacant Years in particular. Now, while I haven't abandoned the project, I have more or less abandoned the draft that I've been posting on FA since last year. The reasons why are numerous, but here are the most important:
Money: I simply can't afford to take the time off commissions to work on it lest I wind up going hungry.
Queuing: Whenever I work on a personal project, ANY personal project, people (most of them not even commissioners...) note me telling me how much of a jerk I am making people wait on commissions while I write personal stuff. No names, but I've gotten quite a few of these messages.
Drive: I loved Two Weeks when I first started, as is often the case with a novice writer starting their first novel, but that inspiration has gradually worn away. Mostly because of...
Inconsistency: It may come as a shock to you guys, but, when I started reading Two Weeks from the beginning early this week, I was amazed how far this novel's universe had come. Unfortunately, it has evolved so far that the draft that you've all read on FA is now totally obsolete. It simply doesn't fit my current vision of the universe, and must be discarded. Here's a selection from my personal journal to explain why:
Two weeks, my long-standing babyfur novel and one of my claims to fame, has outrun its tail truly and completely. The prose is written in an obsolete style, the characters have evolved into something I never intended when I started, the universe itself is now deeper and more complex than I'd ever imagined while starting it, and, as I feel right now, it would be an insult to the themes and ideas contained within to simply pretend that these inconsistencies do not exist. They do, and they are crippling the work. Therefore, I've decided to start over from the beginning, using the crowed source funder Patreon as a means to finance it, and reward my supporters with the works in progress as I write them.
This may seem like blatant profiteering, to throw up a pay wall around something that was previously free to read, but I am presently convinced it is the only way. I mentioned using patreon previously in a recent journal, but the feedback was as much good as bad, so I've decided to go forward with it. In a nutshell, I'm doing this because Patreon would solve ALL my current problems. Finances would no longer be a concern, because Two Weeks would be actually making me money. People would stop noting me about queuing because people are actually paying for this. My lack of drive would be overcome by a strict monthly quota, and the inconsistencies that have for so long prevented me from moving on would no longer become an issue because I'll be starting over from the beginning! Two Weeks 2.0 will take everything I did well in the first draft and improve on it, using the skills that I've gained over the past year. Don't believe me? Well, I'll be posting the first three chapters free to read on FA as teasers so you can see for yourself. Subscribing to me on Patreon is easy, safe, and costs less than lunch at McDonalds. I'm asking 5$ per month to support me and gain exclusive access to my novel as it's being written, but that's not all:
New content will be uploaded every Friday, including:
- An edited and formatted PDF of one of my stories (Every Friday)
- A professionally read and produced audiobook of one of my stories (Every other Friday)
- Exclusive access to my novel, Two Weeks, and all future novels (Upload dates will vary, but the monthly word count will be consistent)
- A monthly story raffle that will be given to one of my supporters (Last Friday of every month)
- Access to all my babyfur related personal stories! (Uploaded whenever I write one, probably 1-2 per month.)
Finally, I’d like to offer special thanks to a handful of wonderful people.
rathalos1 
vexxus 
tornpup and 
yoyolizard for their extremely generous donations to my work.
toddlergirl 
swiftfox tornpup 
theunthinker and 
seifer for their critique and encouragement. I couldn’t have done it without you.
Now, with all that said, it’s time to get started. I will begin uploading work onto patreon next Friday, and I hope to see you all there.
http://www.patreon.com/Argyraspides
The good news is, you're taking something away from this, even if it's just experience. You have an opportunity to make something even better, something that can adhere to your vision with the benefit of hindsight.