Milestone reached!
Added 2016-08-21 06:33:55 +0000 UTCAfter sending that last note I got an email saying someone new had pledged, taking the total up to $50.
That's a milestone! And in accordance with the goal I laid out a week or two ago, I will now pick a patron at random and offer them the chance to suggest an idea for a quickie.
Thank you to all of you. I had hoped to get 15 or 20 bucks per story at first, maybe eventually working my way up to 50 after a few months of incremental improvements. To get there in about a month is almost shocking.