We didn't get any snow, or if we did it was only a few flurries and we missed it. Today, it's sunny and windy and a chilly 36˚F here in Providence
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I won't be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday. My brother died in September, after a very short and horrifically brutal fight with kidney cancer, and I just don't have it in me to play the "everything is normal" game. No family has been invited over, but a couple of friends will come by for dinner. Usually, I go balls to the wall with dinner on holidays because I love to cook and I show love via cooking, but this year will be very simple (or as simple as my brain will allow).
In relation to your statement about The Starkeeper, though- what does this mean for the Patreon campaign? My dedicated eight months just came to a head this month and I would like to renew my pledge, regardless of whether or not you're working on The Starkeeper. I just want to help out.
*edit* Or does the "minimum of eight months" actually stop automatically? I looked, but I can't tell. Regardless, I do want to keep contributing.
There will be another novel, and whatever novel it is, my pledge to all Patreon supporters remains unchanged. It's just a question of what the actual novel turns out to be. And thank you, because without my Patreon backers, I wouldn't be writing any novel at all.
And no, Patreon doesn't automatically end your pledge.
It does seem weird to celebrate any holiday. Yet at the same time I feel a need to find some escape, even temporary. A classmate asked me how my semester was going and I said, "Everything's normal except with an added, general haze of futility."
Anyway, I hope you find good luck with the novels.
The same goes for me about my monthly Patreon donation, as I'm sure that it does for most of your other Patreon backers. And whether or not the new novel takes eight months or eighty, don't even worry about that aspect of things, because I'm in it for as long as you need it. Even if you never produced another work of fiction, the body of work that you HAVE produced up till now has given me so many hours of pleasure since I met you in '98 that you've more than earned it many times over, in my humble opinion.
Is anyone actually going to celebrate Thanksgiving this week?
Yes, although I understand that different people are doing different things. Thanksgiving has no importance to my family as a religious holiday or a celebration of American history, but it is a gathering of family/community and I grew up in the tradition that you don't stop living when terrible things happen-if anything you live more fiercely, if necessary right up to the point where you actually die. Holidays are one way of doing that. You don't pretend things aren't terrible. You do things despite them.
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In relation to your statement about The Starkeeper, though- what does this mean for the Patreon campaign? My dedicated eight months just came to a head this month and I would like to renew my pledge, regardless of whether or not you're working on The Starkeeper. I just want to help out.
*edit*
Or does the "minimum of eight months" actually stop automatically? I looked, but I can't tell. Regardless, I do want to keep contributing.
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There will be another novel, and whatever novel it is, my pledge to all Patreon supporters remains unchanged. It's just a question of what the actual novel turns out to be. And thank you, because without my Patreon backers, I wouldn't be writing any novel at all.
And no, Patreon doesn't automatically end your pledge.
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It does seem weird to celebrate any holiday. Yet at the same time I feel a need to find some escape, even temporary. A classmate asked me how my semester was going and I said, "Everything's normal except with an added, general haze of futility."
Anyway, I hope you find good luck with the novels.
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I'm having the same issue lately.
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Yes, although I understand that different people are doing different things. Thanksgiving has no importance to my family as a religious holiday or a celebration of American history, but it is a gathering of family/community and I grew up in the tradition that you don't stop living when terrible things happen-if anything you live more fiercely, if necessary right up to the point where you actually die. Holidays are one way of doing that. You don't pretend things aren't terrible. You do things despite them.
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