Mind you, Patrick's blog is about RPGs (mainly), and those folks'll buy anything! He is also just about the best writer in the world (IMO). But just saying, it can be done.
Haha - that is a mind-bogglingly enormous project! I love people who will buy anything 😁 Mind you, even just bundling up his blog posts looks like it has been, not only a ballache, but generally a lot of work. Good to see his Kickstarter has done really well and the final book looks like it'll be beautiful!
Yeah, definitely a lot of work. An expensive business too - I'm not sure how much of the final total Patrick will see. A good chunk, I hope, because he was very very very skint beforehand - several years ago he wrote a book called Veins of the Earth, which now fetches several hundred quid on eBay, and he was reduced to selling his own copy so that he could pay his bills. Reduced to get a proper job, working in a corner shop, too.
Wow - that's insane. You're making me want to back the Kickstarter and I don't even know what half the words he uses even mean. Shout out to writers getting proper jobs though. Probably get a lot of inspo working in a shop :)
Oops, somehow my previous comment got posted before I finished. Meant to say that I managed to hold off backing the Kickstarter until the final day, then caved and paid the 50 quid, just so that I can help Patrick out, and have a thing of beauty sat on my shelf. Don't think I'll ever read it (again).
Having read quite a lot of those 67 stories I selfishly am not interested in reading a book, no matter how well edited. What about an outdoor story project, with a page of each story placed in an out door place for anyone to read? Or have some of the learnings and ideas of outdoor things to do distilled into something that fits on a card and then turn that deck into a day of adventure facilitator idea deck thing
Ooh, thanks James - interesting.... Maybe this connects with @Dan Sumption's RPG 'buy anything' comment! Make a kind of real-life RPG adventure playing deck.
Well you *say* you can't just bundle up your blog posts and call it a book, but... my friend Patrick just did exactly that: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gawain/speak-false-machine/description (I helped him to index it, 700-odd pages of it, which was quite the ballache).
Mind you, Patrick's blog is about RPGs (mainly), and those folks'll buy anything! He is also just about the best writer in the world (IMO). But just saying, it can be done.
Haha - that is a mind-bogglingly enormous project! I love people who will buy anything 😁 Mind you, even just bundling up his blog posts looks like it has been, not only a ballache, but generally a lot of work. Good to see his Kickstarter has done really well and the final book looks like it'll be beautiful!
Yeah, definitely a lot of work. An expensive business too - I'm not sure how much of the final total Patrick will see. A good chunk, I hope, because he was very very very skint beforehand - several years ago he wrote a book called Veins of the Earth, which now fetches several hundred quid on eBay, and he was reduced to selling his own copy so that he could pay his bills. Reduced to get a proper job, working in a corner shop, too.
I managed to hold off backing the Kickstarter
Wow - that's insane. You're making me want to back the Kickstarter and I don't even know what half the words he uses even mean. Shout out to writers getting proper jobs though. Probably get a lot of inspo working in a shop :)
Oops, somehow my previous comment got posted before I finished. Meant to say that I managed to hold off backing the Kickstarter until the final day, then caved and paid the 50 quid, just so that I can help Patrick out, and have a thing of beauty sat on my shelf. Don't think I'll ever read it (again).
Having read quite a lot of those 67 stories I selfishly am not interested in reading a book, no matter how well edited. What about an outdoor story project, with a page of each story placed in an out door place for anyone to read? Or have some of the learnings and ideas of outdoor things to do distilled into something that fits on a card and then turn that deck into a day of adventure facilitator idea deck thing
Ooh, thanks James - interesting.... Maybe this connects with @Dan Sumption's RPG 'buy anything' comment! Make a kind of real-life RPG adventure playing deck.