Passing the Hat

[k_a_webb]

For those of you who don't know me I'm a writer, and I get most of my income from ghostwriting. Due to factors out of my control I find myself in a very difficult position. Although I hope, and believe, things will get better, because they always have done before, I'm asking for help from the Dreamwidth community. The last couple of months have been hard for me because of illness. It's going to be one of those bad winters where I pick up everything and it lasts forever considering the way things have gone so far. My rocky childhood has led to a sucky immune system that I do my best to work around, only it doesn't always work out, as I ghostwrite fiction, and my creativity often fails me when I'm feeling at my very worst.

I'm not asking for something for nothing. I've never been comfortable doing that. Instead I offer words in return for any help, because even the smallest amount is going to make my life much easier than it is right now. My website is here, so you can see my style of writing, and I'm happy to write within my current worlds or something else entirely. My specialisation is speculative fiction, mostly fantasy, sci-fi, and apocalypses, but I also write mysteries, the occasional detective novel, and romance. Basically this means you could ask for a fantasy mystery with some romance and I'd be able to write it. Give me a character name and a genre and I can write you something. If you see something you like at the website and the story isn't finished you can also ask for me to write more of whatever it is. If it is finished I'm certain there's something that follows it.

1000 words of fiction currently cost $5. At the website I have a tipjar for both dollars and pounds, so use whichever one works best, and you can always ask for an invoice in your currency if you want one.

Anything you can spare will go towards my rent payment. If you don't have anything I always appreciate signal boosts.