We are a week into the funding and off to a great start at nearly 200% funding.

Thank you all so much for jumping in and giving the project the initial boost it needed to get off the ground. 30 Letters going out June is amazing. If we continue to grow I will be utterly stunned.

Fingers crossed we continue to get backers and can get more artwork commissioned for the future letters.

This week I've completed the first letter! I will go into the influences of the first story and the process of writing in a later update, but it's done and I'm happy with it.

I have also been researching paper types and printers. With how well this first funding round is going, I think I will purchase a printer that will give me control over things like the paper type, sizing, and map colours. I will also need a guillotine...

If anyone has any advice on printers please let me know!!

For the week ahead I will be focusing on writing the adventure to go with the letter and editing up the images for the stickers. Plenty to be getting on with. 

If anyone wants to go over anything: Just send me a DM.

Thank you all once again for making this dream a reality!

Have a great weekend!

Jason

Hello and welcome to Wayward Letters!

Thank you to everyone who jumped in at this early stage of the campaign to to help get us funded. I have said it before and I will say it again: You make dreams happen!

We still have a fairly long way to go in the funding stage and as we gain more funding, the ideas for what this project can become will flourish.

One particular part I am keen to include is a monthly piece of art from @closeenoughnate and I think I could include it on a blank postcard included in the letter.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments! - Is there anything you think we could include in a A5 size envelope, that isn't too heavy or bulky?

The examples of how the project can look on the BackerKit and the marketing, are examples to give an idea of the concept.

The first letters theme and ideas will focus on nature and rebirth. This will mean the letter will have that theme throughout from the colour of the envelope, to the adventure included and the characters and concepts in the fantasy letter and the lore. I will go into this a bit more in another update and cover why I am landing on these themes as a first letter later.

Thank you to everyone who has shared your feedback! It has all been supper constructive and it is incredible the positivity being shared by everyone.

It is hard to get people to believe in something new, so if you want to help the project gain more backers and get more funds together to increase the scope of what we can do here, please share the BackerKit with your friends and on your social media!

The share link is in the top right of the BackerKit page HERE

If you give Wayward Letters posts on Instagram a share, we can pick up new backers there! - This post is doing really well if you can Like, Share, or Repost!

Thank you once again for your incredible support and I will be back soon with more updates!

Jason