Support the Thousand Book Challenge, with your presence and with... ahem... other things... and it’s more likely to happen!

This may seem greedy or mercenary of me, but let me explain. I spend about seven hours of every workday sitting at my desk doing nothing (my job consists of a half-hour’s work every morning and a few minutes’ worth every twenty minutes thereafter). I’m basically training myself to sit at a computer, hour after hour, day after day, and not write.

Writing on company time, you see, is absolutely forbidden. If I do it anyway, I had to sign a paper when I agreed to work there that says the company automatically reaps the rewards of whatever I write. (I’ve done some fan fiction chapters at work—think they want my reviews?)

My point is, the sooner I get away from this job, the better. The sooner I even feel like there is a chance of getting away from this job, the better. The sooner I can get anything which relieves the weird and atypical stress of this job, the better. Which brings me to my great current desire.

I want a cat.

Now, to get a cat, I need to be able to pay its vet bills. I need to be able to pay for its food and litter. And I need to be able to give my landlord a deposit to get the carpets cleaned after I leave. Without these three things, I cannot have a cat.

Once again, I’m not being mercenary here, I’m simply laying out the facts of life. A cat requires certain things to live. However, a cat would make me happier, and that would allow me to write more often, making my readers happier. To my way of thinking, everyone wins.

Let’s see if my way of thinking is also yours. I estimate that I would need between fifty and a hundred people buying credits here at TBC to get my cat. If and when C-Day (the day when I can get my cat) comes to pass, I pledge that I will immediately write a new chapter of Facing Danger, if I have to call off work the next day to do it!

To clarify, there may or may not be a new chapter of Facing Danger before C-Day. I’m not holding my fanfic hostage to my originals. If I get inspired for FD before C-Day comes, I’ll write it, just like always.

But if C-Day comes and goes, and more people keep signing on here at TBC... well, we just might be able to negotiate ourselves a little deal. Say, a chapter of FD every two weeks or so, guaranteed, along with similar timetables for the TBC stories...

No promises on that one yet, though. Let’s see how this whole cat thing works out first. Thanks for reading, I hope I don’t come off like a dirty money-grubber, and here’s to my future cat, Nuisance, wherever he may be right now!