Times ARE pretty tough for writers who need crowd support. In the halcyon days of The Blog, writers wrote just to write. And readers read to read. A comment was gold. I remember gobbling up Medium articles in 2015 before they locked it down behind a subscription. Now that the “patron” era is in full swing everywhere--Patreon, Kickstarter, YouTube, Medium, Substack--is it overloaded? Have we reached the pinnacle? When writers threaten that they’ll have to stop producing because they don’t have enough paid subs, is it not unlike being rejected by a publishing house in the old days? Like you, I have a budget that can only stretch so far (with a husband who’s a full time artist during a time when people just don’t have the expendable income), so I also have to be choosy about my subscriptions. Of course I wish I could support everyone I read!
On a happier note, I REALLY loved your exchange with the man about your “jaikets”! Like the book I just read “view everyone in the community as your comrades”!
Times ARE pretty tough for writers who need crowd support. In the halcyon days of The Blog, writers wrote just to write. And readers read to read. A comment was gold. I remember gobbling up Medium articles in 2015 before they locked it down behind a subscription. Now that the “patron” era is in full swing everywhere--Patreon, Kickstarter, YouTube, Medium, Substack--is it overloaded? Have we reached the pinnacle? When writers threaten that they’ll have to stop producing because they don’t have enough paid subs, is it not unlike being rejected by a publishing house in the old days? Like you, I have a budget that can only stretch so far (with a husband who’s a full time artist during a time when people just don’t have the expendable income), so I also have to be choosy about my subscriptions. Of course I wish I could support everyone I read!
On a happier note, I REALLY loved your exchange with the man about your “jaikets”! Like the book I just read “view everyone in the community as your comrades”!