Liner Note #15: Tuesday Serial blog hop & February incentives

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

Cecilia here. OK, so, with the holidays and all, I didn’t want to put a time-consuming or wallet-straining task on you all to earn January bonus posts. So we’ll have three posts a week until February 3rd! In the past we’ve asked you to accrue points with dollars, with comments, with blog posts, and with retweets/Facebook mentions. This time, let’s have them all!

Dear readers, you have until February 3rd to accrue 100 total points to trigger bonus posts for the entire month of February. One point will be awarded for:
-every dollar donated
-every top level comment on a post
-every retweet or Facebook link
-every new follower to Twitter @daron_moondog or “like” on Daron’s Facebook page

Five points for any review on a website or blog (or review of the DGC vol 1 ebook on Smashwords or Amazon!) and five points for every copy of the ebook sold!

TUESDAY SERIAL BLOG HOP
Next up, our friends at Tuesday Serial recently had a guest blog post by Sage Cohen, whose new book The Productive Writer just came out. She asked a series of questions in her post, and invited web serial writers to answer them in their blogs. So I’m doing that today as today’s liner note. Here are the five questions I’ll answer:

* What has writing web serials taught you about writing a successful story, building an audience, and sustaining a writing and publishing momentum?
* What did you read that taught you something about your craft, your platform or how to take your writing and publishing forward?
* How did you nurture and sustain your well being–in mind, body, spirit?
* What did you learn about your writing rhythms: time of day to write, managing procrastination, how and when to revise, making use of slim margins of time, etc.?
* When and how were you successful at juggling the competing demands of family, writing, work, and everything else in your full life?

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Who's going to Aeternitas?

I just submitted my proposal to teach a wizarding class at Aeternitas... fingers crossed that they take it. I didn't realize the deadline was Saturday--somehow I had it in my head it was today, after Arisia.

I wasn't sure whether to submit it as a wizarding class or as a regular writers workshop, because it could work for either, but here's what I proposed:

Tarot As Divinatory Storytelling
Poetry and storytelling are important skills in the wizarding world. From the Sorting Hat's song to the Tales of Beedle the Bard, we see how the craft of writing encapsulates our past and creates our future. In this class we will explore the Tarot as a writing tool, as a method for divining what lies within. No prior knowledge of the Tarot is necessary for this class, though those experienced with the cards will also find plenty to engage them here. All aspiring poets, bards, storytellers and writers as well as oracles are welcome to learn the magic behind using the archetypes in the Tarot as a means to channel character, plot, conflict, resolution, and theme. Please bring a deck if you have a favorite.

(Aeternitas is the Harry Potter fan convention April 28-May 1 in Laconia, NH. http://www.aeternitas2011.org/)