Finally some nice weather, at least in the afternoon. I finally got the new battery installed in my riding lawn mower. With that up and running I hooked up the trailer and did some yard work, mostly picking up junk near the road that had accumulated over the winter. It’s amazing the crap people feel free to just throw out in front of your house, beer cans, little bags of garbage, plastic containers, some kid’s toy ball. And don’t get me started on the cigarette butts. My yard isn’t even that big and I picked up half a garbage bag full of junk.

After clean up time I made it to my writing desk and got back on track with 6 more pages.

Something I wanted to talk about today. I don’t know if you guys follow publishing and how politics have infected it, but it’s ugly in spaces. It’s the reason I ditched my Patreon. I hated the idea of a company dictating what I could and couldn’t create. Kickstarter was another company that had issues with suppressing ideas they didn’t agree with. They even hired a full time employee to turn away business she deemed problematic. That’s another word I hate.

I’d been thinking about doing a Kickstarter for one of my writing projects, both to quickly pay back production costs and to reach a new audience, but seeing the way they handled free speech issues had me thinking twice about trying them out.

Well, the person in charge of policing creators’ for wrong think has just been let go along with 40% of their staff. This, I suspect, is a result of trying to virtue signal instead of simply accepting any project that met their requirements.

My hope is that going forward they’ll stick to being a platform and not try to tell creators what they can and can’t do. The project I hoped to do probably won’t happen until the end of the year so I’ll keep an eye on what’s happening and decide in the late summer if I want to go through with it.

Finally a quick update on preorder for The Hidden Tower. We’re up to 169. Slowly but surely we’re creeping up on 200 thanks to all of your support. So thank you.

Talk to you tomorrow.