If you want the advance draft of my story Samhain Ritual for $3, it will remain that price until tomorrow at sunset. Below is my facebook post about my process.
I hope you are having a wonderful Samhain this year! That amazing sunset last night was definitely the spirits! OMGoddess it was incredible here- truly the magick hour!!! Blessings peeps
I originally wrote Samhain Ritual because I had been trying
to write about an incident that occurred during Samhain 2019, and some things I
learned from the dead about what it is like to be at one of my rituals from the
other side. And to reveal Mysteries that are ready to go out into the world.
The pdf was to be $16 or $17. I
was planning to advertise with a facebook ad from Lady Rae page.
Then this character Jesse showed up, and then some spirits
offering their lives as setting and plot device, and then the story just told
itself to me, the way all of my stories come. Jesse was conceived in 1992, right
after I had a nervous breakdown and I was really dealing with my past (and the
truth about how I felt about it) and my rejection of atheism and empiricism. I
could tell myself every minute that there was no such thing as spirits or
psychic or etc, but it wasn't organic.
From that 1992 story evolved my alter ego (Charlene Sainte-Claire), and this
alternate universe and STL (River City). Jesse is just a minor character in
that first story, and I know almost nothing about him, except he is a
Frankenstein of men from that defining 3 year period in my life, which is too young
for me to legally write about, for real.
Jesse is the worst of them that were just short of being truly evil.
The original book would have been 30 pages, maybe. Just dense, esoteric stuff that I can write
without much effort. One of the big motivators was to find other Mediums,
psychics, etc that wanted to share info or at least have a convo about these
things. I only know a few folks (you know who you are).
Writing a story (and especially one that potentially enough
people wanted to read that I could sell and subsist on) is an easy
fantasy to engage. In reality, I need to find an agent and submit this to a
publisher, and get it all cleaned up and develop all the plot points into
chapters that are Netflix episode-ready.
(This is actually really saleable as a story about the tragic slut girls
and their relationships, and also the "is this just a crazy person
hallucinating or is this real?" If anyone knows an agent or publisher or
producer that might give me a chance?)
Writing isn't like painting or composing music, it is a
really solitary mental process, and it requires a solitary, mental response, it
requires reading. A painting can be
viewed with a group of people, music can be heard by a group of people, but
even audio books require a kind of singular, subjective and sustained attention
from the mind, not just the eyes or the emotions.
It's difficult not to "prematurely epublicate" lol
or become pushy, or undervalue the work out of neediness to have it consumed.
This story is partly a Samhain offering, and it was my
intent to share some of these mysteries. And I love readers! I love feedback!
so I'm going to leave it at $3 until tomorrow at sunset just in case.
cailliach.gumroad.com/l/ZOhoMH
Last chance, to be the first!!! xxoo
BTW ye of little faith! I must not represent myself very
well. (Probably not.)
*** Spoiler Alert***
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if you read one of the first
drafts of just Jesse's story and thought I'd put the Elementals on the bardo
bridge by mistake or something, well, I guess I can see why you wouldn't want
to read more. I feel sad I appear so inept or uncreative or whatever. It's part
of the plot.
