The Many Ramblings of K. A. Webb

March has been a much better month for me personally and I’m slowly beginning to restart my routine. At the beginning of the month I set up kajoneswriting.co.uk, which isn’t quite finished yet. I still have to set up the world pages with lists of characters and links – which is something I have been putting off slightly. It seems like such a huge job. Towards the end of the month I found Scrivener and I’ve decided I’m going to purchase a licence because the set up is wonderful for the way I write. Due to those two outgoings I’m really hoping to make some money this month.

As usual I also posted March’s free story, which was: Introducing Marnie, from the Magi collection.

I finally finished posting December’s prompted stories: Becoming Human, for Aurora’s World; and Leap Year Proposal, for the Inquisition. I’m really sorry it took me so long to get the stories posted, especially as I enjoyed writing most of them. Due to the length of time it took me I have no idea who signal boosted, so please let me know as soon as you can and I’ll write the extra words for you. I also posted one story for the March prompt session: Freya’s Arrival, for the World Walkers collection. The rest of the stories for the collection will be posted by the end of April.

No donations were received.

Low signal boosting once more means that I’m not going to hold the draw again this month. As it was entirely my fault this month if anyone signal boosts during April they will automatically receive 1000 words per boost. Boost on three different platforms and receive 3000 words. A limit of ten boosts per person.

I’ve made a decision about the surprise draw. This month I’m not going to hold it again, but from next month I’m going to begin again. If you’ve won this draw and don’t want whatever it is you’ve won then it is possible to change it into something you do want or give the prize to someone else – all you need to do is let me know. Anyone who doesn’t let me know what they want to do by the end of April will forfeit their prize and I’ll give it to someone else.

Plans for April: finish off the website; do at least some of the editing I need to do – as I just transferred everything from one place to the other I didn’t do any editing; post some things up on the donor filter, because I’m reallty hoping to get some donors this month; and the normal monthly posts.

Goals for April: write at least 50,000 words and receive at least £50 in donations.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

January was a strange month for me, personally. Much of my time was spent in another place, so I didn't get as much work done as I hoped to, which means that my word count for the month was very low (I'm not entirely sure what it was because the word count on Open Office is incorrect and I use an online word counter that I didn't have access to). However I did post all but two of the remaining prompted stories, made setting rental available, and worked on more world building material, especially for the World Walkers collection.

The month's free story was Aurora Blooms (part 1) (LJ link), which was written for meeks during her adoption period.

Prompted stories posted: Tatiana's Arrival (LJ link) for the Brotherhood collection; Rynne - The Portal Freezing (LJ link) for the 'Astral' World collection; Nadia - A Drink Driving Vampire (LJ link) for the Donor House collection; Anna's Yule (LJ link) for the Pagan collection; Introducing Kieran (LJ link) for Heliopath's World collection; and the Green Man (LJ link) for the Fae World collection.

The Imbolc/New Year prompt call (LJ link) was started and will run until the 4th of February.

Setting rental can be found here (LJ link).

No random stories were posted. Two are ready to be posted, so they'll probably be going up in the next couple of days.

One friends only piece of bonus material was posted: the World Walker's Worlds (LJ link). One of the pieces of bonus material I have been working on for ysabetwordsmith is ready to be posted and will be going up in the next couple of days, while I'm still working on the other one.

No donations were received.

Signal boosting was once again on the low side, so I've chosen not to have a draw for January.

The winner of January's surprise draw is: marina_bonomi. The prize is free setting rental - 3000 words a month about two settings for 3 months.

My plans for February include: ADMIN WORK!!!; normal monthly posts - the free story, collection and character spotlights; and a small auction.

My goals for February, as always, are: writing 75,000 words this month (I know I can do this) and reaching £50 in donations, which will be going towards Mum's birthday present.
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One free story was posted. This was Charlotte's Name Change (LJ link) for the Pagan collection.

My ongoing prompts period was ended, after I wrote one more story which was Terry and Martin (LJ link) for the Inquisition collection. Two continuations were also posted. These were for Sauin Day Celebrations (LJ link) for the Aurora's World collection and Bree - Harvest Festival (LJ link) for the Thear collection. I have one more to write.

Surprise story week stories had one continuation posted this month: Skyler (LJ link); Sebastian (LJ link); Heliopath (LJ link); Tristan (LJ link); Richard (LJ link); Vitali (LJ link); and Callidora (LJ link).

Two random stories were posted this month: Introducing Lucille (LJ link) and Rachel's Story (LJ link). They are both a part of the newly created World Walkers collection.

No pieces of bonus material were posted this month, but I am still working on those two pieces for ysabetwordsmith. I want to get them posted by the end of December.

No donations were received this month.

Choose-Your-Own ebooks and handwritten stories were made available.

As far as I know only two people signal boosted this month, so I have chosen not to have a draw for a free story.

The winner of November's Surprise Draw is: natalief. This month the prize is the naming of a setting in any collection and one free story about this setting off at least 2000 words.

During November my goals were to: to reach 100,000 words of writing, which once again I didn't reach, but I wrote over 85,000 words; and to receive £50 in donations, which also didn't get reached.

Plans for December include: posting 1000 words of Advent Story a day; a collection spotlight and character spotlight, as well as writing for the last spotlights; prompts starting on the 19th of December of the theme of Yule and other winter festivals; a week long sale, starting today, for both handwritten stories and choose-your-own ebooks; and December is double credits month.

Goals for December: writing at least 75,000 words this month, because I think this goal will work better for me, and to reach £50 in donations, which will be going towards Christmas presents. I also want to edit everything I have posted so far and work on world building material that can be posted.

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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.