Patreon: Creator-focused crowdfunding website
Have you folks seen Patreon yet? It's a crowdfunding site that's focused less on short-term fundraising for individual projects (like Kickstarter, Indiegogo etc) and more on long-term promotion of creators doing ongoing projects. Some creators (like Erika Moen) are using it to raise money for their digital comics.
I think it's a great model, and I want to try it out. The problem, of course, is that as a comics writer who doesn't draw, I need to team up with collaborators to do anything comics-based for it. (Although I may try it out as a way to fund short prose fiction pieces. Since I've been writing some anyway!)
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I would actually feel guilty doing comics with it, except maybe to pay an artist, but I have considered doing something else with it.
Call it 2 dollars a lesson, and for 5 a lesson you can ask me one question per week (maybe).
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it. I need to do some thinking and monkeying with Patreon, but I think it's a thing that could be a nice little side income.
http://www.patreon.com/wonderealm
Still have to add a video, but that'll come. This is a genius idea... we'll see how it works out!
Or maybe it's just wsihful thinking on my part.
Man, I should stop reading this thread, or I'll end up spending all the money I make with Patreon (hypothetically) on other people's campaings. Flattr all over again...
http://www.patreon.com/jasoncopland
My original plan, which I am still leaning towards, is giving only the people that support the lessons access to them. So you give a buck or two, I give you the lesson.
But I do wonder if it would make sense to make the lessons free, with the idea that the Patreon is more a donation than a transaction?
Which is how, I think, Erika Moen and some other do with webcomics. I don't have any real behind the scenes stuff for this, so not any additional enticements.
I could maybe make SciFi Hercules the enticement. Dunno.