After not hearing from a former writing coach client for quite a few months, she recently sent out an email showing just how creatively you can finance a project:
Dear friends,
I’m excited to say that I’ve gathered up the courage to finally publish my collection of short stories that took five years to write. Same Same is a collection of stories that gives an intimate glimpse into the life a Vietnamese manicurist in San Francisco. This theme is very important and personal to me because my mom has worked in the nail salon industry for over twenty years, including the time in which I grew up working in her salon in San Francisco. For many of us, we walk by nail salons often and see the Vietnamese women work there. Immigrant women like my mom continue to be encouraged to go on this path and continue to transform this urban employment niche.
As a friend, I’m asking for your support to get the book into the world and have it available in paperback and ebook format. Check out my kickstarter page: http://kck.st/s83bUj
Any pledge will be deeply appreciated and will go to publish and market the book. Thanks in advance for supporting my writing and helping me reach my $1000 goal.
Hope you are doing well!
Love,
Ly
When I visited Ly’s kickstarter page, I found out that eleven backers have already pledged $685. As of the publication of this post, she has 28 days to go to meet or top her $1,000 goal and actually get the funding for her project.
On Kickstarter, which bills itself as the “world’s largest funding platform for creative projects,” including music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields, a project must reach its funding goal by the deadline or “no money changes hands.” This protects the donor as well as the creator. As the site says, “This way, no one is expected to develop a project with an insufficient budget.” Creators can test their concepts by seeing if they can actually raise the minimum amount they’ve deemed necessary for their projects without compromising their supporters or themselves.
So check out Ly’s kickstarter page. Maybe you want to throw a little support her way. Contributions as small as $10 are accepted. Or maybe you have your own project to finance. Either way, it’s worth a look.
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