Thursday Poll With a Point, Pay as You Go Art

[jeriendhal]

Even if you don't normally respond to my polls, I would really appreciate as much input as possible this time around.

[Poll #1607719]

Comments

[drakemagi.livejournal.com]

While I would LIKE to help sponsor a book, right now my finances are scraped bare. If that changes, I'd be willing to consider it.
And the final question is an unconditional Yes.

[aynne-witch.livejournal.com]

roll the words author boy

[mishalak (from livejournal.com)]

I actually read your journal for stuff besides the fiction. I know, I'm a freak.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I write stuff in my journal besides fiction? ;)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

At this stage of the game, I wish I had the money, but I don't.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Hm, I'd chip in a bit on The Ship, because I really liked that bit of dialogue between the main character whose name I forgot and the AI, and would like to read more about the AIs/"how we got here" in that setting.

I really don't know what to say about length or funding aim.

* That's no comment on your writing; I have an awfully bad memory for names.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

I've got something to say about the length and funding aim, after all. The most popular lengths are novel and doorstopper, and that'd lead, even at the lowest funding-aim-per-1000-words, to an aim of 500 or 1000 dollars, respectively. That seems rather a lot, looking at it from a view of "do I really want to sponsor that when it seems likely that [insert percentage]way through all interested readers have given as much as they are able/willing to give to that project, and it won't be finished".
I mean, it might pick up on the way, but... mrw. :/

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I was going by haikujagaur's standard funding rate, which is IIRC $15.00 per thousand words or so (going by her two page "incense stories" which made up The Aphorisms of Kherishadar) This is effectively half the standard rate that professional publishers offer new authors. Of course I don't have anywhere near as many readers as she does, so trying to fund an entire book might be a bit ambitious. Another idea would be a series of interconnected shorts like the Kherishadar storeis, which build on each other but which can be read as standalones.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

I don't follow haikujaguar, and the cloest to something like this sponsoring I've seen was when Kagerou/electric manga had a "if I get x amount of donations, you'll get one additional page on top of those I'd post anyway".

Interconnected shorts seems less risky.

I wonder why I'm so negative about this, and thinking of Kagerou reminded me: The one time when I paid in advance in something resembling crowd funding (it was a comic anthology, and the call was "pay ahead to help financing the printing"), the anthology never got printed, so I got stiffed on a physical product I paid for.
So, yeah, possibly feeling a bit burned.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That's okay, he's a pretty forgettable character. :)

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Nah, seriously. I have books on my shelf I know I read three times already because I liked them, but couldn't actually name a single character.