>>Hm, I never considered crowdfunding, but I'm unsure if it would work for me -- I'm pretty quiet by nature and not great at putting myself out there, so...yeah. However, it's given me another angle of self-publishing to think about, so...who knows!<<
The interesting thing about crowdfunding is its flexibility. You can do all kinds of different things with it. I wasn't sure it would work for me because my friends were doing it with serial fiction. But when I started doing the Poetry Fishbowls, it didn't take long for fans to start requesting returns of characters they loved. Now I have a huge pile of stuff. You kind of grow together with your audience and figure out what works for you.
I would say, poke around and look at many different crowdfunded projects. There are one-shot platforms like Kickstarter. There are regular venues like Patreon. There are people selling stuff on random other venues like me on Dreamwidth. Pretty much any creative thing you can imagine is on somebody's crowdfunding list.
>>You sound pretty awesome, so I hope you don't mind my adding you :D
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Date: 2022-12-18 07:21 am (UTC)The interesting thing about crowdfunding is its flexibility. You can do all kinds of different things with it. I wasn't sure it would work for me because my friends were doing it with serial fiction. But when I started doing the Poetry Fishbowls, it didn't take long for fans to start requesting returns of characters they loved. Now I have a huge pile of stuff. You kind of grow together with your audience and figure out what works for you.
I would say, poke around and look at many different crowdfunded projects. There are one-shot platforms like Kickstarter. There are regular venues like Patreon. There are people selling stuff on random other venues like me on Dreamwidth. Pretty much any creative thing you can imagine is on somebody's crowdfunding list.
>>You sound pretty awesome, so I hope you don't mind my adding you :D
Yay!