I'm Better Now - Covid Free

As the title says, I've lived through having covid. It sucked, but here we are. Part of that here we are is that I basically didn't work half of last month. I've gotten some money from my mom so I can pay rent which was a slight worry since rent comes out the first business day of the month and Patron takes a few days to payout.

1: Side track, speaking of Patreon, I've not done anything with the new subscription payment method where people pay on the day they signed up. Any opinions on it? I don't really care one way or another, though admittedly seeing it all process in one day gives a nice jolt of, "Oh hey, I can buy food" feelings. I've mostly just sat on it so others could test it and I likely wouldn't switch to it until the start of next year.

Anyway, back on track. I've seen some suggestions that I could do donation incentives to release more chapters. I do not have the time to actually write more chapters at the moment. The fact I managed to get both chapters for this weeks D'sP release done and scheduled the night before has more to do with having time because of covid than anything else.

2: So I have a large backlog of chapters, but that is part of the early access that patrons get. Would you all mind if I did some donation incentives for RoyalRoad and Scribblehub to release some of that backlog?

I've seen similar things before and was thinking about two options. One is a starting price of $50 donated for a chapter of D'sP and two of NR, then double the price each time the goal is met. The other is a straight $100 for every chapter of D'sP and two of NR released. This isn't one person donating it all at once, but rather a cumulative goal from everyone donating.

Edit: I would be limiting how many unlocks they can get. I just didn't originally include this bit because the original idea of doubling costs would mean the sixth unlock would cost $1,600 on top of the $1,550 spent on the previous unlocks. Anyway, even on the straight $100 to unlock I would limit it to ten extra chapters of D'sP and twenty of NR.

Finally, while I have your attention, there is a third thing to go over. I've been rolling this idea over in the back of my head for a while now and it would be a complete update of my tiers. Obviously if you're already in a tier, I'm not going to be deleting them and it would stay the same, just not available to new patrons.

3: Anyway, the idea is to change from basically two different Patreons for my stories that happen to share the same page, to a Patreon for my writing as a whole. This might not make much sense, so let me explain my idea for the new tier system. The $1 tier would remain the same and then I would have three new tiers. A $3, $7, and $10 tier. Instead of the tiers being split up by the story, they would be split up by how many early chapters they get with equal access to both stories.

The $3 tier would get an extra chapter every third week, the $7 tier every other week like how D'sP currently works, and the $10 tier gets an extra chapter every week. NR suffers a bit under this change with D'sP coming out as the golden child and upgrading to an extra chapter every week.

However, this is just how I've been currently thinking about it and other suggestions would be welcome. For instance, the tiers don't mean that every story I ever write in the future will neatly fit into the 1:3, 1:2, and 1:1 release schedule and I would be fine having a story not match up with it. I'm honestly tempted to start off that way with NR being 1:2 at $3 and 1:1 at $7 with the $10 tier not adding anything. Though just to restate, if you're in a tier already, it won't vanish on you unless you unsub.