Tag: patreon

The potential awkwardness has been resolved: a couple of people signed up, and a couple of people have adjusted their pledges.  I no longer have to worry about suddenly below-minimum pledge levels.  I do have to say, though: I’m not sure that Patreon thought this one through beforehand. I imagine that this has spawned drama… safely elsewhere, hopefully.

So, crisis averted.  But, hey, sign up anyway.

The short version is, Patreon recalculated the way that it calculates public pledge totals so that they reflect what creators actually receive.  Let me note for the record right now that I was fine with the idea of Patreon getting a cut, and the size of that cut; they gotta eat too, right? Besides, I don’t really know how to do what they do, and they don’t know how to do what I do, so we had a good arrangement here.

Still… under the recalculation I have still been knocked below the $60/month pledge total that unlocked new 1,000 word short stories every month.  I don’t know, exactly, what the ethical position is, here. People signed up for that level in good faith, and obviously I didn’t change things, and I’m wondering whether sixty bucks is a reasonable price to charge for what’s essentially creative writing practice work, and this would all be easily resolved if I just got a couple more $5/month pledges tossed in the kitty that made the whole thing moot.

So feel free (click here), if you haven’t already.  Seriously: if you haven’t already.  Existing Patrons shouldn’t worry about it; again, as I said, good faith.

For strictly non-political creative writing. If that intrigues you, then by all means: sign up.  …And Patreon needs buttons for this.

It’s there to encourage me to do more non-political, creative writing kind of things! So check it out! Sign up! All the cool kids do!

…Hey. Cool is self-defined.  No, seriously, that’s the secret.

Which means: one 1,000 word short-short fiction per month! …And they will show up on the blog, as promised. Eventually. Certainly the people who pay for the privilege will get to enjoy my deathless prose before everybody else does…

Seriously, thanks for the support. If you wish to add to it, click here (my site here).

…forcing me to do a 1,000 word short-short story every month!  Think about it, is all I’m saying. Just think about it.