Chris Brecheen is a writer who depends on patrons. They have a number of ongoing writing projects from a blog about writing that occasionally dips into fiction, to regular Facebook posts about current affairs (along with a healthy dash of daily updates and geekery). They run a Facebook page about writing where they put up all kinds of content from puns and memes to articles about linguistics. In addition, they post a lot of social issue thoughts and reviews on their NOT Writing About Writing blog. They’re also writing a book as fast as they can and periodically work on other projects as well. They really don’t get paid for any of this work though. Not directly. They don’t have ads on their blog. Digging around for the links and memes they put on FB is a labor of love. Even the book they’re writing will be published non-traditionally and made available to everyone for free (as well as as cheaply as they can on Kindle and print-on-demand). Their writing is for the world and if they can keep the bills paid doing so, always will be. Also, while they have a few breathtaking, top-dollar patrons, about half of their current output is based on donors of less than $10 a month. It is really up to all of you how much they can keep writing. Losing a big patron can mean 10% of their income in one disaster, and lots of little patrons help mitigate that, so no amount is too small. Of course, they would continue to write with or without making a dime, but the more bills that they can pay without having to slog off to their zillion side gigs , the more time they can focus on doing even MORE writing. More posts. More content. Better quality. And faster turn over on their fiction. They set up this Patreon so that their readers would have a chance to support these endeavors as well as have the warm and fuzzy feeling from providing patronage to an independent artist who provides all their art to the world for free.
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