Seems like there are more "crowdfunding" companies that want to charge you to get your project out there then there are crowdfunders! It's a little depressing. Okay, it's a lot depressing. I am writing this book about how I ended up where I am today, but I don't have money to pay people to help me find a place to live.

That's really stupid, in my opinion. Maybe it works for tech startups, or film projects. But this is a book about a life lived large, taken down by illness, and made BIGTINY again because I won't give up.

I have a degree in graphic design, I've written twenty books, I design graphics, logos, and Websites. I understand UI/UX, and I can edit and proofread at a pretty unprecedented level.

And yet....

Crowdfunding. Does it work? Do people care enough to help me fund the land and a Tiny Home, so that I can write about it and proceed to start Tiny Villages and encourage cities to build Tiny houses for homeless people.

Here's the Indigogo link. Do you care?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-big-tiny/x/12923228#/

This darling Tiny Home is available in my neighborhood, but they want 49,900 for it. It's most likely worth it, but I don't have that kind of cash laying around. Will a quarter do?

Changing crowdfunders

I did some research, and found that Indigogo fit my needs better than Kickstarter. So, the new crowdfunding campaign is on IndiGogo.

Nothing like learning as you go. I'm almost afraid to try to and build a tiny house and end up with the scary shack.

But I can do this. No, really. No. Really? Hush up.

Everyone should have a place to call home...

As I research this Tiny Home movement, I realize the ramifications of "tiny" are HUGE. We have people dying on the streets, in the cold during the winter. Veterans. Lost souls. Why can we not create more of these Tiny Homes and make them into communities for the homeless? Some cities already are.

I'm starting research on an article about the Tiny Home Movement, and making life affordable for EVERYONE.

A place to call home. Everyone needs that.

Could this be it?

I found a lot near Zion National Park. I need to go look at it, aside from pictures, but WOW, the views. The life. THE DREAM.

Of course, with a Tiny Home you must check CCRs (Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions). I looked that up, and the most common abbreviation is Creedance Clearwater Revival. Rock on!

But yeah, it doesn't mean that here. It means they might require you have a house that is a certain square footage (damn these big earth dwellers), with a two-car garage and other necessities.

No thanks. Tiny Homes technically qualify as RVs, because they are on wheels. A small home/cottage is not the same as a Tiny Home. I am not opposed to either, although it would be nice to move closer to my children should I get sicker.

Amusingly enough, some communities demand you build things a CERTAIN SIZE. Like, Tiny is not cool. They haven't caught up with the fashion industry, I guess.

More later as I explore this exciting new option.

Kickstarter Campaign as I start again....

Hello friends and family. I am launching a kickstarter campaign for my new adventure in life--The Big Tiny. I am embracing the Tiny House lifestyle, and am going to write about my experiences as I downsize, learn what you can and cannot live without, learn how to live in small uncluttered space, and more. Truly, I am hoping to find myself. And be healthier, as I have faced many, many health setbacks. If you can contribute to the Kickstarter, it would be amazing. There are gifts for those who do, and I'm also working with my agent on finding a publisher to document the new "Tiny House" Movement.

The kickstarter link is here.

https://www.kickstarter.com/…/book-the-big-tiny-learning-to…

And I've already started the book, as I have been pretty much homeless for a year. Thanks so much to family who took me in when it was needed, and care for me regularly, I am surviving.

I am unable to tolerate the IgG treatment they give for my autoimmune disorder, so living isolated is a necessity. Small, clean, compact... and yet letting go of so much I thought i wanted and needed.

Losing Dad just a few years after Mom has not helped, and sorting through "stuff" that means a lot is going to be hard. Writing about the process will just be part of the journey.

I'm laying here thinking about my dad, Jim Mayfield. How much of that do I have in me? By "that" I mean the philosophy that where one was good, 42 was better." Sigh. "De-stuffing will definitely be the hardest part of this." (I think)

But writing novels in a tiny space that is just mine, surrounded by only the necessities... Ideal, right?