For people who want their fiction reviewed.

[jolantru.livejournal.com]

And for folks who are on Twitter, a great venue to have your fiction reviewed: here.

Observations on Tip-at-Whim

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I've been experimenting on and off with different kinds of online-payment models for... five+ years now, I'd say. In that time, I've observed that this model is excellent for one-time-only offers. If you do a single story, free-something-day, etc, you'll get a good response. However, it's very poor for on-going offers. Serials, tip buttons you leave on websites or next to blogs you update pretty much continuously, etc. Anything where the content arrives predictably but you don't specifically call attention to or require the donation.

Anyone else have a different experience? I'm pondering moving models with Spots; tip-at-whim works very well for me for the One Card Draws but not so well with serials. (The other way I use tip-at-whim, for my Livejournal content and my website's art updates, aren't meant to be consistent money-makers, just opportunities for lagniappes.)

Intro

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

I just realized I haven't introduced myself yet.

I'm Grey Walker. I think of myself as a mask maker, primarily. But I make all sorts of other art, including matchboxes, paintings, fiber art, and handmade books and chapbooks (containing others' content as well as my own).

I also write, mostly stories and poems about myself as a fictionalized/symbolized Mask Maker, the Maskwood, the Listening House, and an imaginary town I'm exploring, called Holman.

I post about masks and the making thereof at The Maskwood Online Journal, and I'm slowing building The Listening House, which will also eventually incorporate the Listening House Press.

The Roman View

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Chapter V - Roman Picnic is now posted for The Roman View on Make A Wish Upon Tomorrow.

The Roman decides to have a nice, relaxing picnic by the river.