So I’ve decided to go ahead and give this a shot.
In short, for 3$/month, you will now get access to my stories as I write them. I’ll post them, chapter-by-chapter. There won’t be anything special, basically it’ll just be an extended version of what I already do with the early access to the first two chapters.
Speaking of which, if you’re a 1$/month Patron, you can read the first two chapters of A Warm Place 9 here. Or the first chapter here for free.
And you can read the third chapter here, the first to be posted under the new 3$/month reward tier. (You will get access to this automatically if you are a 5$/month Patron.)
I’m not going to have a set release schedule for this, and honestly that’s my biggest hesitation behind doing this. Before now, I’ve tried to be decently honest about what’s happening behind the scenes, but the only one who knows about it when I lose it and just need however many days off, or I get distracted for however long, is me. The only things readers know is there’s this big, nebulous span of time and then suddenly there’s a book. You won’t have a perfect view of my writing schedule, but you’ll certainly have a clearer picture, and suddenly it’s going to be WAY more embarrassing and guilt-wracking when I suddenly lose it and fall off halfway through the week and don’t get back on the horse until the following week. (This happens a lot, thanks to depression, anxiety, and other unspecified phantom physical health problems, combined with just real life stuff, and writer problems like when I’m stuck on one scene and I just don’t fucking feel like writing this kind of scene right now and I keep trying to do it but just can’t again and again until suddenly I can and I’m over it, but then I know the same exact problem is lurking somewhere in the shadows…)
My long, rambling point is I’m a mess and doing this will inadvertently shine a brighter light on just how much of a mess. But it will also (ideally) strengthen the bridge between myself and you the readers.
So basically, I’ll upload as I can.
If you’re interested in this, here’s my Patreon.
Also, one more note, I will start putting up Our Own Way 7 soon, but the chapters are going to be unedited. Our Own Way should be the only time this happens, because with that series, I’ve ended up taking a different route. Because they are shorter, I just write the whole thing, and then go through and edit afterwards, versus my normal style of editing as I write.
If you do decide to support me this way, then I really appreciate it. Thank you.