I’m not really sure what triggered me to jot out “Dude, Do You Even Physics?” – but then, I never really do know. They typically just pop into my head. Heck, I don’t even know if I’m doing this sort of thing correctly, if that even means something in this context.
Anyway, enjoy. And, remember: Patreon Patrons get to see this stuff a while before everybody else does.
I don’t think that I’ve put this short story (“Belief“) up yet. If I have, I apologize. It’s just that it was in my Media section already, but I don’t see a post for it, so I don’t think that it’s been put up here yet. Anyway, this is a short-short story for my Patreon readers, and you should totally sign up to become a patron. Hope you enjoy.
Just put up my latest short-short story and campaign world update for the month for it, too. Patrons only, alas: but you can join, and check it all out! At the moment I do a weekly 100 word short-short-short and monthly 1,000 word short-short stories and campaign settings in 500-700 word blocks. And if I start getting more Patrons and more pledges, I start writing more stuff.
So check it out.
This one is set in the same world as the Crossroads of the Commonwealth RPG setting thing that I’m gonna collate Real Soon Now and try to figure out if it can be actually, you know, sold for cash money. In the meantime, enjoy this snapshot look, hopefully.
The story (written for my Patreon patrons) is called Fascinating; whether you agree is up to you. The world that it is ‘from’ is one that I think about, from time to time; I might expand it at some point. Then again, I might not.
The potential awkwardness has been resolved: a couple of people signed up, and a couple of people have adjusted their pledges. I no longer have to worry about suddenly below-minimum pledge levels. I do have to say, though: I’m not sure that Patreon thought this one through beforehand. I imagine that this has spawned drama… safely elsewhere, hopefully.
So, crisis averted. But, hey, sign up anyway.
The short version is, Patreon recalculated the way that it calculates public pledge totals so that they reflect what creators actually receive. Let me note for the record right now that I was fine with the idea of Patreon getting a cut, and the size of that cut; they gotta eat too, right? Besides, I don’t really know how to do what they do, and they don’t know how to do what I do, so we had a good arrangement here.
Still… under the recalculation I have still been knocked below the $60/month pledge total that unlocked new 1,000 word short stories every month. I don’t know, exactly, what the ethical position is, here. People signed up for that level in good faith, and obviously I didn’t change things, and I’m wondering whether sixty bucks is a reasonable price to charge for what’s essentially creative writing practice work, and this would all be easily resolved if I just got a couple more $5/month pledges tossed in the kitty that made the whole thing moot.
So feel free (click here), if you haven’t already. Seriously: if you haven’t already. Existing Patrons shouldn’t worry about it; again, as I said, good faith.
For strictly non-political creative writing. If that intrigues you, then by all means: sign up. …And Patreon needs buttons for this.
