![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
k_a_webbIn the past few days I've been thinking a lot about what I'm doing. Creative writing is, and always has been, the only thing that I'm particularly good at. When I was at school I was in the highest set for everything but I knew that in most of the subjects I was mediocre at best. That never really bothered me too much. It was when I get a chance to write a story, or something that I could create from my mind (like an interview I wrote in year 8 at school, in which I was talking to the lead singer of Def Leppard who I've never met before and don't think I eve will - I wish I still had a copy of it) that I got the high marks. For my examined 'short' story (16 A4 pages, one sided) I got an A* (I lost that as well) and my story from the point of view of a cat was said to be one of the most empathetic things my teacher ever read. Now it's the thing I want to be able to spend the rest of my life doing - because I am a writer. It's not that I want to be or that it's something to aim for, because it's what I am, was and always will be.
Anyway I've gone totally off topic, but never mind. By the end of the week I'm going to have my newest idea fully set up - it's pretty much ready now but I want to check over a few things, just to make sure I haven't written anything stupid. :) It's character adoption, which is something I was thinking about setting up right from the beginning, and I think I'm going to do this instead of commissions. I may also do commissions once every couple of months or something but I'll wait and see how this goes first. For a donation of anything between £3 and £145 you may adopt one, two of three characters, for up to six months. Every adopter will receive an adoption certificate, which isn't going to be great to begin with because I'm making them online using one of those school certificate creator things, and at least one story on the character they adopted. The story will be for their eyes only until it has been sponsored. A character can only be adopted by one person at a time so make sure you have a back-up character in case the one you wanted is gone.
I'm also going to make changes to my permanent prompts page. If I write a story based on a prompt then the prompter will receive a copy of the story, which will be for their eyes only. From the beginning of next week I'm also going to give anyone who finds a typo in one of my stories either one month's adoption for free or the chance to have a story written based on a prompt of their, whether they've posted it on my prompts page or not.
That's all for now. Look out for the character adoption pages going up, probably Friday or Saturday, if you're interested. Anyone who has an idea of a character they would like to adopt and would like to reserve them before that day then let me know. The names are all posted on the landing pages.
Anyway I've gone totally off topic, but never mind. By the end of the week I'm going to have my newest idea fully set up - it's pretty much ready now but I want to check over a few things, just to make sure I haven't written anything stupid. :) It's character adoption, which is something I was thinking about setting up right from the beginning, and I think I'm going to do this instead of commissions. I may also do commissions once every couple of months or something but I'll wait and see how this goes first. For a donation of anything between £3 and £145 you may adopt one, two of three characters, for up to six months. Every adopter will receive an adoption certificate, which isn't going to be great to begin with because I'm making them online using one of those school certificate creator things, and at least one story on the character they adopted. The story will be for their eyes only until it has been sponsored. A character can only be adopted by one person at a time so make sure you have a back-up character in case the one you wanted is gone.
I'm also going to make changes to my permanent prompts page. If I write a story based on a prompt then the prompter will receive a copy of the story, which will be for their eyes only. From the beginning of next week I'm also going to give anyone who finds a typo in one of my stories either one month's adoption for free or the chance to have a story written based on a prompt of their, whether they've posted it on my prompts page or not.
That's all for now. Look out for the character adoption pages going up, probably Friday or Saturday, if you're interested. Anyone who has an idea of a character they would like to adopt and would like to reserve them before that day then let me know. The names are all posted on the landing pages.
