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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith is having another half-price sale of their poetry. (For those of you who have not been on my friends list long enough to see this, they are a crowdfunded author and poet with a large body of work I enjoy. Most of the sale poetry comes from their monthly Poetry Fishbowl.) This half-price sale features works from their Polychrome Heroics storyline.

One common feature of the half-price sales is a volume discount: any person or persons who sponsors more than $100 worth of poetry need only pay half the half-price rate. This is a great bargain. Some of us are inclined to offer people who wouldn't otherwise want to spend that much a chance at that bargain by running sponsorship pools, where we designate a list of targets of interest and provide the initial funding. Anyone interested in seeing any of those works sponsored can chip in a bit toward the pool targets, and then use the quarter-price discount for anything else they may want to buy.

This pool, usual suspect [personal profile] fuzzyred and I are proposing to buy out the Big One and Kraken threads. [personal profile] fuzzyred also wants "A Serious Eater" from the Shiv thread. Together we can already just about cover that. This means that anyone interested in joining the pool is free to specify any new target they would like to help sponsor, and new pool funds will go toward funding it.

Looking forward to the action!

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[personal profile] fuzzyred and I are throwing a Pool Party for this week's Polychrome Heroics sale. This is the way we encourage folks to support [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith's writing by offering a chance to share in the quarter-price discount available for large purchases.

Here's how it works: the organizer of the pool (that's me, in this case) proposes a list of target poems worth enough to trigger the quarter-price discount. Per published rules, anyone who contributes to a quarter-price buy gets quarter-price on all poems in that buy. So, if there's something you'd like, and would like to save some money on, or make it inexpensive enough to sponsor, you can join the pool by pledging whatever sum you consider meaningful toward the current target list -- and then add targets of your own. If you contribute enough to purchase your target(s) outright at quarter-price, they will be added to the list. If you can't swing that much, and want to see if other pool members are willing to make up the difference, you need only ask for your target to be included. More often not, someone will be interested, and the answer will again be "yes".

So come one, come all! Here's the target list we're starting with:

"A Murmuring, Fateful, Giant Voice" 64.50
"The Ones Who Have Your Back" 47
"Sung in Hobo Jungles" 63
"The Sort of Things That Make People Stop" 35.50
"Public Art as a Team Sport"107

That's $317 at half-price, or $158.50 at quarter-price.

If one of those is of special interest to you, and you want to designate that poem as the target for your initial contribution, that part will go there. Otherwise, it will go wherever it will do the most good for the pool. As poems on the target list accumulate enough money for sponsorship, more targets will be added; any ideas from pool members are appreciated.

The pool will close sometime Saturday evening when I am online. Contributions via PayPal will be collected and forwarded once they have been received. Let's go sponsor some poetry!

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Having had a number of creative people subscribe recently, I'd like to welcome you here by sharing a creative activity I enjoy.

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith is a large part of why I'm here. They are a poet, and nearly endless source of informative links, who is crowdfunding their works and posting sponsored works on Dreamwidth.

As part of their crowdfunding activities, they host a monthly Poetry Fishbowl, normally on the first Tuesday of each month. New Year's Day having been the first Tuesday of this month, it was postponed until today.

Anyone who wishes can participate in the Fishbowl; just follow the link above. If you leave a prompt, [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith will likely write a poem relating to the prompt and the Fishbowl theme of the month. Sometimes the same day, almost always by the next day, and definitely within the week.

As a prompter, you get a copy of the poem you prompted for your own personal use, for free. If you like it enough to want to share it with the world at large, you can sponsor it. Prices depend on the length of the poem, but aren't too steep for what you get. Especially because what you often get includes a hefty quantity of relevant links. Even if you don't see something you want to sponsor, other sponsored works will appear for everyone to enjoy.

So, if you'd like to see creativity in action, the Poetry Fishbowl is the place today. Go on over and have a look!

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