Holiday Poetry Pool
Dec. 16th, 2019 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ng_moonmothysabetwordsmith, a prolific and excellent crowdfunded poet, is offering here a grand buffet of their year's production this week. All poetry is half-price at any amount, and quarter-price if a sufficient purchase is made.People who wish to combine forces to reach the quarter-price discount may do so. By annual tradition, I pick a list of purchases that interest me, and then open a pool so that anyone else who wishes to sponsor poetry at quarter-price may do so. If you are interested in something on my list, just let me know how much you wish to contribute. If you are interested in something else, please let me know, and include a meaningful amount toward the pool for its targets, and the pool will add your target to its list if you are unable to fund it completely.
The pool closes Friday evening; I will find out when the cutoff is for sponsorship and use the same cutoff for pledges. Please fund your pledges via PayPal promptly; I will check to see when I should have them in hand for forwarding.
OK, here's my list. I have included the quarter-price amounts for each poem. Poetry Fishbowl regulars probably know the storylines. For others, the author has resources on the web, available via links from the sale page, where you can find out about the storylines and sample previously published poems. Hope many of you decide to participate!
Poems I wish to sponsor:
To Know Without the Intellect (An Army of One) $24.75
The Lord's Night (Frankenstein's Family) $43
Interspecies Communication Issues (Aquariana) $10
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Pool opening amount $77.75
The other thing I focus on is sequences of poems, where one poem starts a thread on which other poems follow and depend. The pool will open, and I an willing to contribute to, any of these threads that draw attention:
The Hollow Way
The Restoration of Order ($62.75); A Nation of Inconsistencies ($19.50); Connect Us with Each Other($22)
Total: $104.25
Polychrome Heroics (Mallory): Any Direction You Choose ($61.75)
Polychrome Heroics (Rutledge): Because We Are All Unique ($105)
Polychrome Heroics (Shiv)
If You Don't Stick Up for Them ($20); Getting Close to a New Guy ($10); The Supreme Quality for Leadership ($57.75)
Total: $87.75
This is some of Shiv's early history.
Polychrome Heroics (Shiv)
The Making of a Wonderful Sculpture ($22)
This Knife's Sharp Constancy ($33)
Parts You Didn't Even Know You Had ($21.75)
These are prerequisites with individual dependent poems.
Thank you!
Date: 2019-12-17 03:20 am (UTC)Friday is the last day for sponsorship, so that's when to aim for final donations.
To Know Without the Intellect (An Army of One) $24.75
The Lord's Night (Frankenstein's Family) $43
Interspecies Communication Issues (Aquariana) $10
Series links:
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/an-army-of-one.html
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/frankensteins-family.html
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/aquariana.html
Do you want me to mark those three for the pool already?
The Hollow Way doesn't have a page yet, but here are others:
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/polychrome-heroics.html
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/shiv.html
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2019-12-17 03:40 am (UTC)Thanks for the series links. Those will help casual browsers.
>> Do you want me to mark those three for the pool already? <<
Please do.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2019-12-17 04:02 am (UTC)That should do. I just want to get it wrapped Friday so I'll have plenty of time to post what I expect to be a big batch of poems.
>>Thanks for the series links. Those will help casual browsers.<<
I hope so.
>>Please do.<<
Done.
>>
Yeah, she said she'll look at the pool list in the morning. :D
>> Should something untoward happen, I will find something else to buy to make the quarter-price target.<<
Awesome.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2019-12-17 05:52 pm (UTC)Final pool buy
Date: 2019-12-21 05:57 am (UTC)"To Know Without the Intellect" + $24.75
"The Lord's Night" + $43
"Interspecies Communication Issues" $10
"If You Don't Stick Up For Them" $20
"Getting Close fo a New Guy" $10
"The Knife's Sharp Constancy" $33
"Parts You Didn't Even Know You Had" $21.75
"The Man Who Keeps His House in Hand" $32
"All'Ombra" $137.25
"Is Fearr Gaelige Briste" $36.75
"Any Direction You Choose" $61.75
"The Supreme Quality for Leadership" + $57.75
Open "Celebrate and Cherish" + $12
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Total $500
$300 comes from
When you indicate sponsorship, would you please use "
Meanwhile, I'm busy over here getting ready to make latkes for a couple dozen folks Sunday -- and then going to visit family and make some for a dozen more the following Sunday. I've got what I hope is a higher-output process worked out, and I'll see how well it works. I still get to spend a big chunk of my time at the cooktop.
Re: Final pool buy
Date: 2019-12-21 06:26 am (UTC)Received, thanks.
>>When you indicate sponsorship<<
I have updated the pool accordingly. Doublecheck the entries if you have time, to make sure I got them all.
>>Meanwhile, I'm busy over here getting ready to make latkes for a couple dozen folks Sunday -- and then going to visit family and make some for a dozen more the following Sunday. I've got what I hope is a higher-output process worked out, and I'll see how well it works. I still get to spend a big chunk of my time at the cooktop.<<
Yay! :D
We have made latkes for feasts here a few times. Tasty things.
Re: Final pool buy
Date: 2019-12-21 07:28 am (UTC)Looks good from here. Anticipating the results.
>> We have made latkes for feasts here a few times. Tasty things. <<
Indeed. Biggest hassle for the cook is that everything has to happen quickly -- from grating the potatoes to cooking to serving. But everyone enjoying the results is more than adequate payoff for the activity required to do everything à la minute.
Interest List
Date: 2019-12-17 02:40 pm (UTC)Ones from your list that I'm willing to sponsor:
"Interspecies Communication Issues" $10
"If You Don't Stick Up For Them" $20
"Getting Close fo a New Guy" $10
"The Knife's Sharp Constancy" $33
"Parts You Didn't Even Know You Had" $21.75
Ones not on your list that I will sponsor fully:
"The Man Who Keeps His House in Hand" $32
"All'Ombra" $137.25
Total so far: $254.00
That leaves me $46 that I'm willing to throw in. I'd like to sponsor "Is Fearr Gaelige Briste" $36.75, but if we get "Any Direction You Choose" sponsored, that would make it possible to open "Celebrate and Cherish" as the epic, if anybody limes that plan.
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Date: 2019-12-17 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-17 05:35 pm (UTC)I shall send the money by end of day today, if that works for you.
Well ...
Date: 2019-12-17 11:37 pm (UTC)1) Mark the other poems you're sponsoring so people can see which ones they are.
2) Start posting the stuff already funded but leave the pool open in case anyone else wants in.
Both cut down the flexibility a little, but if you're sure about what you want, that's less of an issue. Let me know if you want me to do anything.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-12-18 01:16 am (UTC)The next target up, should anyone else join, is "The Supreme Quality for Leadership". "Celebrate and Cherish" is the provisional microfunding target should there be a slot at closing.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-12-18 01:35 am (UTC)I have marked:
"Interspecies Communication Issues" $10
"If You Don't Stick Up For Them" $20
"Getting Close fo a New Guy" $10
"The Knife's Sharp Constancy" $33
"Parts You Didn't Even Know You Had" $21.75
"The Man Who Keeps His House in Hand" $32
"All'Ombra" $137.25
"Any Direction You Choose"
"Is Fearr Gaelige Briste"
Please check the sale page and make sure it's correct.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-12-18 03:08 am (UTC)Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-12-18 03:09 am (UTC)$$$
Date: 2019-12-19 06:56 am (UTC)Re: $$$
Date: 2019-12-19 10:47 am (UTC)