Recent Donations

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What cyberfunded creativity projects have you donated to or otherwise participated in lately?

I sent a donation to shadesong for this story:
http://shadesong.livejournal.com/3677331.html
It's a clever bit of nonstandard fiction written as instructions for a magical experiment.

Poetry Fishbowl Report for Tuesday, Sept. 9

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This month's poetry fishbowl went very well. I started about noon and wrapped up at 11 PM, with lunch and supper breaks in between.

I wrote 10 poems, and they ran long -- two of them clear into the custom pricing range. Most were single prompts, though some combined two prompts. One actually used someone's set of prompts as an outline; that was fun. All but two were free verse, leaning heavily on alliteration and imagery to create a poetic flavor. The freebie poem is "Luck and Magic," posted here (scroll down, it's near the bottom). There were 42 comments, including mine, and 9 people posted prompts.

This month's donors are: moosl, haikujaguar, talix18, minor_architect, and browngirl. I'm delighted to announce that this is the biggest month yet for donations: based on current information, it'll be $84 when the snailmail payment arrives. W00T! So far I've posted the sponsored poems "The Cave of Stories" and "The Goddess and the Bull." "Sing a Song of Silver" should appear in a few days. I'll also see about posting the donor perk and the general sponsorship poll, hopefully today.

Poll for September 2008 Poetry Fishbowl

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I've posted a poll on my blog relating to the September 2008 Poetry Fishbowl. Feel free to drop by and vote on which poem should be published online courtesy of the general donations.