4 Days Until Dinner
A Dinners with Caroline Countdown
In an effort to start building hype for my major project, Dinners with Caroline, and to put a spotlight on my funding platform, Patreon, I’m going to answer one question about my project.
Now, I already did a lengthier post about my Patreon page, which you can find here. Still, I want to make a quick mention that this is my way of sharing exclusive content with fans who are interested and capable of making a pledge to help fund this project. These funds help with things that I need to make this project possible. It buys office supplies that I use for planning, food fuel for the late nights I dedicate to finishing posts on time, it goes into a savings account for a new computer (that I will be needing before the end of this project, I’m sure), and bills that I have to pay so that I can afford to do this project.
As I start to get a rolling set of reliable funds, the money will then start going towards the extra goodies that I’ll have to buy for patrons, paying for ad-free reading on my blog, and better equipment to create the goodies I send my patrons, goodies I share for free with my readers, and anything else necessary to make this experience amazing for my readers. If you can donate even just $1 per month, it helps. Everything adds up and helps me keep doing this thing I love for you.
Q) What kind of story can readers expect from Dinners with Caroline?
Answer:
Dinners with Caroline is meant to deal with grief from loss and the power of romantic love through that process. I know that we have plenty of love stories, but I want this story to be raw and realistic in a way that most love stories are not. We are never truly ‘whole’ when we lose something. Part of us remains cracked, and the idea of falling in love when your entire world has just fallen apart is messy and jagged and hard.
Despite this concept being a sort of tragedy-turned-romance piece, I am hoping it reads as more comedically realistic. After all, this is a story about a college sophomore and a college freshman from very different backgrounds now leveled by the same problem: the deaths of loved ones. I actually lost my father quickly and unexpectedly earlier this year, and so I’ve been wanting to write about grief – which has plagued my life with nearly annual deaths in my family since I was a young child. It’s something that I understand well and have experienced in dozens of different ways, and something that we all grapple with at some point in our lives – be it a family member, a friend, a pet, or a role model.
It is my hope that you can almost heal with these characters and find peace as the story progresses. I’ve stated in other posts that the characters will move through the five stages of grief while also moving through the stages of love condensed into five stages as well. My husband and I are not a perfect couple, but the loss of my father and the hospitalization of my husband’s father within the same 6 months really helped strengthen our relationship at a time that it really needed it.
As such, the concept is near and dear to my heart. I can’t wait to share some of my own experiences in the stories with these characters that are painfully real. Well, at least that’s the plan. You’ll have to stick around to see!
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