Tagged: writing

How to run a KickStarter Fundraiser Campaign

If you read my other blog, the Disney one, then you know that I just launched a crowd funding project for my “Dispatch from Disneyland: The Fireworks Spot and Other Tales” book on KickStarter.com. As I type this the community has pledged nearly 25% of the total in just 24 hours. I’m over the moon with the results to say the least.

I’ve spent a couple weeks researching how to best frame my proposal, how much money I should ask for, and how to best ask for pledges. I could have saved all that time and just read this excellent article by designer and Tokyo art space author CraigMod.

Follow CraigMod’s outline and Kickstarter becomes more than a crowd funding tool, it’s a first step on the path of an entrepreneurial adventure. I am roughly following his suggestions and, as you can see above, success is greater than I could have hoped for at this point.

Worst Opening Sentence Contest Winner

This year’s winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced.

An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.

The winner is a little too obviously humorous I think, but it is really bad.

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.

I think some of the runners up were better.