Desperate times.... · 4:53pm Jun 11th, 2014
I feel terrible.
I've still got a backlog on commissions from my failed crowdfunding attempt. I've fallen behind on all my stories, including some things I've promised to collaborative efforts. My (incredimazing) parents are tight on money, so I've taken to buying my own groceries with my crowdfunding money, as well as paying rent. This in turn has cut my own balance to almost nothing.
And on top of all that I have a rash. It kept me up all night.
While I can't do anything about the rash, I can do something about my money troubles and my stories. I've opened up a Patreon account. Here's how it'll work: if you sign up, you will be promising to pay me x amount of money for every chapter I publish. In turn, I will try to publish at least one chapter of one of my stories once a week. Whenever I do publish, I'll post a blog and let everyone know; I will wait TWO DAYS before telling the Patreon account that I've published, to give you time to remove or add support as you feel applies.
On top of that, I'm going to promise the one thing I actually did deliver on: reviews. If you pledge ten dollars per chapter or more, you get a free review of whatever you want me to. I might scale it up to "one review every three months" later, but right now I just want to see if I can handle this as it is.
I'm looking at rent being 350 a month, groceries around 70 a week, and other expenses making 50 a month. That's around 750 a month total. I know it's asking a lot to even suggest a dollar toward this, but every little bit helps.
I'll be happy to start donating once my summer job starts up.
Same ^^
I've pledged what I can for the moment. Unfortunately I've fallen on rather sketchy times myself. Not nearly as bad as yours sounds though.
Good luck