Now that 2024 is over well underway and I've gotten over the post Christmas madness that hasn't been helped by lots of manager absence I'm feeling ready to get back to picking up my next Patreon Art series. There was a two week period there due to sickness and holiday and unexpected absence of a returning manager that the management team was just two people. And technically just one actual manager since I have no actual position just been given the approval to run the Branch.

Anyway, I'm digressing here. I'm kinda planning out a more long term series. The trick I've always struggled with was a concept that would allow for sufficient changes of pace to keep the reader interested while at the same time ensuring a constant theme connects the whole thing together. And following some kicking ideas around with my Patreons I've hit upon a real gem.

While I've yet to settle on an actual title for the series, I am running with a work in progress of The WAM Hotel. Yes, that's a little pedestrian and doesn't exactly capture the imagination but it does sum up what I'm thinking here.

From the outside it looks like your average hotel, like you would find in any city around the world. I'm not sure where I'd base it yet, geographically speaking. Of course there might not have to be one and it could become a chain or franchise. Thoughts to play around with in the future. Of course, it's not the kind of hotel you can just walk into and hope the have a vacancy. Advance bookings are essential due to the special services they offer.

Given its exclusive nature, only a small number of guests can be accommodated at one time. Where a traditional hotel would be mostly guest rooms, suites, Penthouses along with restaurants, swimming pools, bars and other facilities, only two floors actually accommodate rooms for paying guests that can number up to 50 at one time. The other floors contain this hotel's unique selling point. This is a WAM hotel after all.

Here you will find facilities to cater to a broad range of WAM activities. From simple wet rooms where you can enjoy getting messy with the substance of your choice to rooms to more specialist rooms each with a particular theme to elaborate recreations of icons of WAM that prove extremely popular.

For those who might be newcomers to WAM, a Beginners Package has been specially created to allow a slow exploration of all it has to offer. A package which takes advantage of the most valuable resource of the hotel; its staff. Each guest will be greeted on arrival by a charming companion with kind words, a warm smile and scant amount of clothing who will guide them to their room, taking in a brief tour of the hotel along the way. Each floor is staffed by a team of these charming companions who are more than happy to offer company at any hour of the day.

If that sounds like a fun little project, do check out my Patreon. It's the best place to see works for this series as it begins. Or watch this space for future updates.

www.patreon.com/white66

Stay safe.

White.