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8 years ago
Hi,
So, Patreon. We've all seen it. Some of us support a few artists on there. (I support 
adriofthedead, 
inktiger, and 
jeevestheroo. As well as the not furry but mathy Three Blue One Brown (whose math stuff is top notch. I can't recommend enough his Linear Algebra series).
Every great while I've had the very brief passing thought of starting one. Even if only a couple of people threw a dollar or two at me a month it would be swell. But of course I remember I'm not exactly the most prolific of writers. I get maybe a story up every couple months or so. So it wouldn't be super fair to people. It might be an incentive to actually write more, but regardless I don't have a great track record on that front to begin with. So I let the thought pass with a sigh.
But I remembered something this morning when the thought arrived again. Mr Three Blue One Brown up there has his Patreon set as a donation per video. And that could be up my alley. If I don't write, my patrons don't get charged. And this actually would encourage me to get stuff written and done as there would be an actual tangible reward for getting writing done.
It's something I'm going to look into and hopefully set up in the next week or so. I want to look into the possibility of seeing if patrons can cap their donations (like, $2 a story, max $6 a month). So on the off chance my muse gets me going and I belch out a dozen stories in a month, no one is hit with a surprise bill for four times what they were expecting to pay.
That and I'd also need to figure out incentives, which I have zero ideas for. Commissions, even short ones, have never been my fortay. Early access to stories/wips of stories seems less practical for writing than drawing (“Thanks for the cash, here have a shittier, less refined version of the thing I'm writing”). I could send out complete versions to patreons a month or so prior to stuffing them up on FA/SF, I suppose. Polls to let people determine what sorts of stories I work on next. Maybe more of my ellbaborate backstory/worldbuilding stuff if anyone has interest in that sort of thing.
I don't know. We shall see. Let me know of any thoughts/suggestions on the matter you have.
Thanks
-tygacat
adriofthedead, 
inktiger, and 
jeevestheroo. As well as the not furry but mathy Three Blue One Brown (whose math stuff is top notch. I can't recommend enough his Linear Algebra series).Every great while I've had the very brief passing thought of starting one. Even if only a couple of people threw a dollar or two at me a month it would be swell. But of course I remember I'm not exactly the most prolific of writers. I get maybe a story up every couple months or so. So it wouldn't be super fair to people. It might be an incentive to actually write more, but regardless I don't have a great track record on that front to begin with. So I let the thought pass with a sigh.
But I remembered something this morning when the thought arrived again. Mr Three Blue One Brown up there has his Patreon set as a donation per video. And that could be up my alley. If I don't write, my patrons don't get charged. And this actually would encourage me to get stuff written and done as there would be an actual tangible reward for getting writing done.
It's something I'm going to look into and hopefully set up in the next week or so. I want to look into the possibility of seeing if patrons can cap their donations (like, $2 a story, max $6 a month). So on the off chance my muse gets me going and I belch out a dozen stories in a month, no one is hit with a surprise bill for four times what they were expecting to pay.
That and I'd also need to figure out incentives, which I have zero ideas for. Commissions, even short ones, have never been my fortay. Early access to stories/wips of stories seems less practical for writing than drawing (“Thanks for the cash, here have a shittier, less refined version of the thing I'm writing”). I could send out complete versions to patreons a month or so prior to stuffing them up on FA/SF, I suppose. Polls to let people determine what sorts of stories I work on next. Maybe more of my ellbaborate backstory/worldbuilding stuff if anyone has interest in that sort of thing.
I don't know. We shall see. Let me know of any thoughts/suggestions on the matter you have.
Thanks
-tygacat
