I’m trying something new with the upcoming serial – essentially asking the prompter-level donors to fill in parts of the serial description.
Clare filled in the first blank, giving us the Serial Family of hikers.
MB & @Dahob filled in the next two, so now I have: Once, there was a [(Family of Hikers)] who lived in a [(tropical)] [(sky island)].
Here’s your tropical sky island: https://www.patreon.com/posts/serial-islands-4839730
A story of going-to-Doomsday-Academy
“Here we are.” Adelaide looked at her three children, then looked back at the gate in front of them. She stole another glance at her kids and sighed.
Ameera had gone to Addergoole two years ago. This would be her third year there, and she looked both worried and eager. Lorccán was going this year. He looked eager. He didn’t really know what he was getting into.
But first, they were going to Doomsday…
(read on – free for everyone to read)
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I have cleaned up and reposted “The Year Cya Didn’t Keep Anyone” here on Patreon for all & sundry to read.
This story began the Cloverleaf saga. It was originally posted on Dec. 5, 2012.
In the aftermath, it was called The Year Cya Didn’t Keep Anyone.
She freed the lost boy named after a destroyed city — a boy her grandson had found forher, the way his father had brought her home boy after boy when he was in school — dropped her grands off at school, and walked out into the wilderness.
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I am holding a Patreon Pledge Drive in hopes of filling a slight income hole with my chosen income-garnering path… dragons and dungeons!
Ah, speculative fiction.
With a few dragons here and there and, ahem, quite a few dungeons. 
So if I’m going to ask you to patronize me, I ought to tell you what you’re getting, oughtn’t I?
By now, everyone probably knows that a $1 pledge gives you access to all the patron-only stories.
And I’ve already told you about the $5-pledge level
So now we’re into uncharted territory! Reward tiers nobody has tried for yet!
Pledge $7/month, and as long as pledges stay over the $30/month milestone, you get a super-secret private story.
That’s right, another story on top of the others in the Patreon, just for $7 and up donors, and you get to prompt it!
Of course, you still get all the $1 and $5 perks – prompting on everything, reading everything, picking serial ideas and characters. And you get your own secret story for just $2 more a month.
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I’m trying something new with the upcoming serial – essentially asking the prompter-level donors to fill in parts of the serial description (you can see it in my reward-tier profile).
clare_dragonfly filled in the first blank, so I have:
Once, there was a [person or group of people(Family of Hikers)]…
Here they are:
I am holding a Patreon Pledge Drive in hopes of filling a slight income hole with my chosen income-garnering path, more apocalypses!
Err, I mean “more speculative fiction writing.”
Probably with some apocalypses.
So if I’m going to ask you to patronize me, I ought to tell you what you’re getting, oughtn’t I?
By now, everyone probably knows that a $1 pledge gives you access to all the patron-only stories.
But what about the higher rewards? What else can you get from me?
Pledge $5/month, and you get to tell me what to write, broadly:
Each month, I hold a theme poll here on DreamWidth, open to everyone. That determines the monthly theme, out of ten options.
Then I open a prompt call to my $5+ patrons! From those prompts, I write the month’s flash fictions and microfictions! Sometimes I’ll combine ’em, sometimes I’ll go off in a strange direction, but I’ll always use those prompts first.
In addition, when taking a new direction on a serial, starting a new serial, or making up a character for a serial, I will poll the $5+ patrons for feedback.
For instance:
Fill in the blanks:
Once, there was a [person or group of people(Family of Hikers)] who lived in a [setting descriptor] [place].
[Pronoun] discovered that [ITEM] was [adjective], and that it was up to them to fix it!
But first, [Proper Noun] had to [verb] [GROUP or ITEM].
And, if I reach the $245 milestone – “Spreading the Love Around” – I’ll ask the $5+ patrons’ input as I commission a crowdfunded artist to create a portrait of one character/month.
All that for just $5/month!
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All right, I’m not going to bore you with a day-long telethon with people interrupting all your favorite programs to tell you about how if you donate just $5 you can get a WXXI tote bag…
(Non-USians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_drive)
But I’m looking at a possible income shortfall that I could make up with just the right amount of Patreon, so I am doing a pledge drive for more Patrons!
https://www.patreon.com/aldersprig
Pledge now!
Just $1/month gets you access to all my Patreon stories.
$5/month will let you vote in my new ad-libs serial creation (and the monthly prompt calls and all other votes).
And it keeps going up from there.
What’s more, during this week-long pledge drive, for every milestone goal we reach, I’ll write one extra story for every patron to read! If we get all the way to $220/month, I’ll hold an extra Patron-only prompt call.
Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/aldersprig
Signal boosts are appreciated.
Want to know more about the rewards?
Reward Tier Profile: $5
Reward Tier Profile: $7
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Hello! It’s time for the March Theme Poll!
These polls determine the theme for Patreon writing for the month, spurring the prompt call and from there several stories.
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!
Don’t have Dreamwidth? Please feel free to vote in the comments.
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The Tinies of Ogre-House
This story runs concurrent to the very beginning of the Dragons Next Door Saga.
When the ogres moved out, ‘Opi’s parents and the rest of the older-people were relieved and worried all at once.
‘Opi wasn’t sure what to feel. The ogres had been loud and stinky, but their walls were very thick, and they had been very sloppy housekeepers, which meant they they left all sorts of interesting stuff lying around. The Tiny community living in the thick stone walls of Ogre-House was the envy of many a nearby clan – and, what was more, ogres were almost as good as humans for obliviousness, and they never, ever hired exterminators.
read on… for just $1/month.
Prompt on each month’s theme (including February’s!) for just $5/month.
Your patronage helps support all of the free material you see here on Dreamwidth/Livejournal, as well as webserials and all-new fiction on Patreon!
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