a story told at an elephant's pace (Patreon)

After kicking around a list of at least 30 title ideas, Elephant Town finally stuck. :)

While elephanttown.com is owned by a domain squatter asking for $2k*, my wise friend Rich nudged me that www.elephant.town was available, so that'll be its home eventually!

*I just checked, apparently elephanttown.com is a page full of Microsoft links now? Bluuhhhh!

I want to promote the project in April (and start sharing pages with you guys in May, before they're public), so I think I'll try one of those takes-up-a-whole-row Instagram things, like this:

Ideally, each of the square posts would be lightly animated, because I can't seem to quit this animation habit, so why not?! Here's a very rough idea of how subtle the movements would be:

... proving that redrawing each panel (rather than just copy-pasting moving parts like I did here) really pays off! 

This story is going to be... long, and slow. The first four chapters are already 80-90 pages. But I want this story to take its time, and breathe. 

I sketched up a possible update schedule, and decided the best way to share the pages is to update scene by scene, so you don't finish reading an update mid-conversation! Scenes would be between 2-5 pages, and might update once a week, twice, or three times in a week, depending on what feels right. Either way, I'd be drawing 5 pages every week.

(Routines scare me.)

It makes for a heavy workload - a page a day - but my incentive is that I think you'll enjoy reading it more the faster I get them out. According to this schedule, you wouldn't even be meeting Miranda until August, and I don't want to stretch it out longer than that!

I'm curious how y'all feel about not having a set "update day" for Elephant Town? I feel like most people just use email notifications to find out when serial stories update these days. What do you think? Let me know!

PS, even though this is a "Sneak Peek" post, I'm including $3 patrons, because asking you to "help me write the book" has been such a bust this year!! The answers you sent for those few "story polls" I ran in 2019 made it into the first few chapters of the book (and made it more fun for me), so thank you for contributing things like... like albondigas, a word I didn't know before. ;) Anyway, I thought I'd let you in on the Sneak Peek level this time, since it's been otherwise pretty quiet for your tier!