Ava’s Faber Academy Fund
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I'm almost a month in to Faber Academy's Writing a Novel course, and having such a lovely time running around Bloomsbury House once a week (sometimes twice), talking about writing with my new peers, and being beholden to not only this absolute beast of world publishing (and I use beast in the best of ways) but also to myself. I'm really good under deadlines, and with accountability, and I can't speak for the quality of it yet, but the reality is that by March I will have a whole novel on paper. It may even be before. I'm exhausted all the time. I feel guilty every day I don't sit down and write at least 1500 words. It has a title and characters and a real plot and a month ago it didn't. It's 10,000 words longer than it was 4 weeks ago. It is going to be worth it.
But. Having had the worst career luck the last few years (and then worked in subsidised theatre where I was lucky as hell but barely earned money), I have to admit I'm stressed AF about paying for it. I'm trying to take it a month at a time, and pick up Box Office shifts practically everywhere I've ever worked on top of my full time job and classes, because the reality is that publishing, like most creative industries, does not make it easy for non-rich people to break through in this particular way. You can't get a student loan for non-academic study, and the best bit about working with Faber is that it's practical and not theoretical. Essentially I can't afford this course, but I'm told it's really bloody hard to get accepted... and I did. So I have to keep going, and do whatever it takes, right? You don't throw away those shots, to paraphrase my old pal Lin-Manuel Miranda. (We are not pals. We've met twice).
THEREFORE I am still crowdfunding as much as I can to help me along. I've seen so many people do it this way for drama school places, and sweeten the deal with fundraising concerts or dance performances, but those are talents I don't have. What I can do, if you want, is write you something. Anything, really. You're talking to the girl who once adapted a film in to a novel length piece of fanfiction as a birthday present. And it was really good. You want it, I'll do it. And if you don't want anything written but feel like donating anyway, you'll have to help me rinse the champagne at the book launch, ok? (Jokes). (I'm not joking).
Thank you for all of your support so far. The acknowledgements pages get longer and longer every time someone lends a hand, and I am so grateful for that.
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But. Having had the worst career luck the last few years (and then worked in subsidised theatre where I was lucky as hell but barely earned money), I have to admit I'm stressed AF about paying for it. I'm trying to take it a month at a time, and pick up Box Office shifts practically everywhere I've ever worked on top of my full time job and classes, because the reality is that publishing, like most creative industries, does not make it easy for non-rich people to break through in this particular way. You can't get a student loan for non-academic study, and the best bit about working with Faber is that it's practical and not theoretical. Essentially I can't afford this course, but I'm told it's really bloody hard to get accepted... and I did. So I have to keep going, and do whatever it takes, right? You don't throw away those shots, to paraphrase my old pal Lin-Manuel Miranda. (We are not pals. We've met twice).
THEREFORE I am still crowdfunding as much as I can to help me along. I've seen so many people do it this way for drama school places, and sweeten the deal with fundraising concerts or dance performances, but those are talents I don't have. What I can do, if you want, is write you something. Anything, really. You're talking to the girl who once adapted a film in to a novel length piece of fanfiction as a birthday present. And it was really good. You want it, I'll do it. And if you don't want anything written but feel like donating anyway, you'll have to help me rinse the champagne at the book launch, ok? (Jokes). (I'm not joking).
Thank you for all of your support so far. The acknowledgements pages get longer and longer every time someone lends a hand, and I am so grateful for that.
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Ava Eldred
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