Breaking the Stained-Glass Ceiling: Two pieces of writing about art. (Patreon)

Hello my loves.

I WROTE. 

A THING. 

A really good, heartfelt Thing.

And I just published This Thing - a hall-of-mirrors essay/poem/howl - over on Substack, it's called "Breaking the Stained Glass Ceiling: Two pieces of writing about art". Embedded above is a video of me reading the piece aloud. Just to make it more thing-like.

You can read it here, its about 1,600 words - that's a 5-to-10 minute read depending on your speed:

https://amandapalmer.substack.com/p/breaking-the-stained-glass-ceiling

Please, if it resonates, share the link.

And, please, comment over there on the piece itself, and feel free to continue the meta-patreon-discussion over here. I'm reading comments in both places.

This is one of those wonderful moments where patreon kicked my ass into gear to actual work on my writing.

It began with a little post I saw - just one of those little delightful things on the internet (posted by one of my own patrons, Angel Rosen). I shared that image, and the image turned into a metaphor, and the metaphor drew a criticism, and the the criticism inspired a poetic howl.

In the old days, I would just write, and write, and sometimes work for dozens of hours on blogs and posts that never saw the light of day. I didn't have a publisher. My writing wouldn't make any money. I didn't have a deadline. I didn't have a copy-editor. I didn't have a system.

Now I do.

I took this entire pile of writing and worked on it for a day or two, send it to a copy-editor, and am calling it Real

I am doing this because I can.

And that, my loves, is why the patreon is revolutionary to me. Because I can. And so I do. 

It sounds so crass, but, now: I can, therefore I write.

Thank you so much for being my patrons. I wouldn't be writing without you....I just wouldn't. You are helping me exist, survive, persist, right now. 

Thank you.

Thanks to my copy-editor, Rina Bander, for doing the qork so quickly.

And especially: thank you to Angel. 

You threw the pebble. I love you, you poet of life. Small things lead to everything. Nothing is insignificant. Everything is real.

Believe in me, and I will believe in you.

And I do.

xx

AFP

P.S. I've got the Althing coming, it'll be out on the 31st. Stand by. I'm also planning the next webcast (finally) for August 3rd, at noon. Webcast patrons: please save that time/date...I'm juggling everything, but that's the plan, and you'll get an invite ASAP (and I'll nail it by the time the Althing goes out).

———THE STUFF I SAY AT THE END OF EVERY POST———

1. if you are a patron and new to my work, don’t forget your patronage allows you access to ALL of my patreon releases to date. HERE is the link to download my latest big solo record, “There Will Be No Intermission”, and HERE is a link to download the PDF of the art/essay book that goes with it.

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http://amandapalmer.net/things

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