I'm Still Live-Writing My Newest Novel For Charity. Won't You Donate?
So if you’ll recall, I promised to live-write the start of my latest novel-in-progress, The Song That Shapes The World, to help raise funder for the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop. The Song That Shapes The World is, as you’ll recall, “Pitch Perfect with magic battles,” in which I promise:
- Dragon-riding cello players
- A magical city created entirely by musicians
- Dubstep techno-knights
- And even more weirdness from the guy who brought you a novel described as “Breaking Bad Meets Reddit.”
Ever since then, I’ve been battling technological glitches and recalcitrant novel starts to explain not just what I wrote, but why it works – or, in this case, mostly why what I wrote doesn’t work, since I’ve had a lot of false starts on this novel. But if you’re a writer, seeing me explain why this perfectly-lovely scene has to go is, in a way, a lot more interesting than watching someone do it right.
But I still need your help!
Because this live-writing has been so delayed (and because of some major revelations about the book I just had), I’m going to go crazy and do this for two months instead of one. But I’m still doing it to raise funds! So remember:
Step #1: Donate at least $10 to the Clarion Foundation. More is good if you can spare it. You don’t have to donate in my name or anything, because honestly, their Write-a-Thon webpage forms are dreadful.
Step #2: If you don’t already have one, create a LiveJournal account. Rejoice in this feeling of web page time-travel, as one suspects there’s not a lot of new LJ accounts created!
Step #3: Email theferrett@theferrett.com with your Clarion receipt and your LiveJournal handle, with a header of “HEY FERRETT LET ME IN.” I’ll do the mystical LJ gestures to get you access.
(NOTE: Because my outgoing email currently will not let me send, I’ll probably have to contact you through LJ. This is suboptimal.)
Step #4: Watch me figure out how to introduce you to Gwendolyn, the protagonist, and how she’s sucked through to Backstage, the mystical world-behind-worlds that influences all other civilizations with the cataclysmic Battle of the Bands.
Step #5: Share this post if ya can!