September Round-Up

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Two free stories were posted. The first was Found (Part 1) (LJ link), which is from my Fae School collection, and the second was Introducing Amber (LJ link), which is from my 'Astral' World collection. The second free story is thanks to a donation from forgottenspirits.

I had one prompts day on the 1st of September and I received five prompts from three people, one of which included a donation which took the story up to 2500 words. From these prompts I wrote: The Beginning of the House continued (1) (LJ link) and The Beginning of the House continued (2) (LJ link) which were both for the Donor House collection; Archimedes and Hades (LJ link) for the Deities World collection; Letting Go (LJ link) and Becoming Death (LJ link) which were both for the Afterlife collection; and Naida's Story (LJ link) for the Fae School collection.

Three characters are currently adopted. meeks adopted Aurora from the Aurora's World collection after winning a free character adoption and ysabetwordsmith adopted two characters, Morgan and Richard, after receiving the chance to get free adoptions thanks to her wonderful typo-finding skills.

During Surprise Story Week I wrote seven stories. Thank you to ysabetwordsmith, meeks, unico_love, darkspirited1, morrigans_eve  and kitrona for the numbers. From these numbers I wrote: Skyler (LJ link) for the Inquistion collection; Sebastian (LJ link), a random story; Heliopath (LJ link) for the Heliopath's World collection; Tristan (LJ link) for the Brotherhood collection; Richard (LJ link) for the Afterlife collection; Vitali (LJ link) for the Pagan collection; and Callidora (LJ link) for the Deities World collection.

No random stories were posted this month.

Three pieces of bonus material were posted: the Donor House timeline (LJ link) and Vampire Eating Habits (LJ link) for the Donor House collection; and Aurora's World Magic (LJ link). Spoilers are likely so don't read the bonus material if you don't like spoilers.

One donation was received from forgottenspirits for prompts day but no stories were sponsored.  ysabetwordsmith won the chance to name a character in a random collection during prompts day and the random collection was the Donor House collection, so she chose to name a Lakota character she had asked for a story about. His name is John Good Road. She has also named a permanent structure in the same collection and this is the bookshop Echoes of Alexandria.

A credits system (LJ link) is being tested out. Please let me know if you have any ideas for this system and if I have at least five people collecting credits by the end of October then I will implement the system permanently.

As only one person has signal boosted this month - many thanks to ysabetwordsmith for her amazing signal boosting - I have chosen not to have a draw for the free story for signal boosting. Next month, if there is more than one person signal boosting, then the draw will be on as normal.

The winner of September's surprise draw was kitrona. This month the prize is the naming of a character in the world of the winner's choice.

Plans for October include: one free story posted in the 1st and the possibility of having a prompts period at the end of the month.

Goals for October: reaching at least 100,000 words of written during the month; reaching £50 in donations - donations will first go towards Christmas presents for the family and if I go over £50 then they will go into the 'moving out' fund; and having more people collecting credits.