Characters don't tell me what they want--this is never something I have experienced. Characters do what i want them to do, and i alter their circumstances as appropriate to make sure that happens. Just as an aside.
I will admit, I am skeptical of front loading anything, but either way, my judgment of what my limits will be, are judged on what I've written. I know I can reliably produce a book a year, which is broadly acceptable for trade pub. But I write in fits and bursts, have a LOT of real life commitments re carer duties, and probably only spend about 8 of every 12 months writing (and around 4 days of every week). A patreon with infrequent updates could maybe work for me; a strict monthly schedule never will.
Again, it clearly does work for lots of authors, so if t ultimately works for you, then that's great. As before, though, I'm not really interested in how to make patreon work for me, because it wont. More trying to assess how much I will miss out on (if anything) by not adopting it, and/or whether I can put my sporadic energy into other angles instead.
I will admit, I am skeptical of front loading anything, but either way, my judgment of what my limits will be, are judged on what I've written. I know I can reliably produce a book a year, which is broadly acceptable for trade pub. But I write in fits and bursts, have a LOT of real life commitments re carer duties, and probably only spend about 8 of every 12 months writing (and around 4 days of every week). A patreon with infrequent updates could maybe work for me; a strict monthly schedule never will.
Again, it clearly does work for lots of authors, so if t ultimately works for you, then that's great. As before, though, I'm not really interested in how to make patreon work for me, because it wont. More trying to assess how much I will miss out on (if anything) by not adopting it, and/or whether I can put my sporadic energy into other angles instead.
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