OMG! I am laughing at "this one will be a breeze"! I cannot tell you how often I have found myself there on a character bio. On an occasion or two, these are the ones that have ended up being a major three-part series. I cannot wait to read this one.
You nailed it on the hidden costs of enjoying fandom. There are also levels of sacrifice one is willing or unwilling to make depending upon their responsibilities and lifestyle, women with a decent income and young children might have less disposable cash than an impoverished pensioner like me! I would like to make room for the categories of people you listed above. Maybe there is a way to do both--like charge a minimum and encourage people to pay more? Personally I will have less spare cash floating around than I did before I moved into my own space and no longer share expenses. I have been looking carefully at things I was paying for like Netflix!
I do think that there might be various ways of allowing people to be able to afford a small fee or even qualify for a "scholarship" but that kind of thing can be administratively overwhelming. Just some random thoughts.
I am cutting Netflix! But fannish pursuits are normally more important to me. I was paying for Questia to enhance my character bios and was devastated when they went out of business.
You have not been seeing any progress on my current WIP character bio because I need a new giant-sized computer monitor. I hope to pull that off very soon--another invisible cost of fannish participation. On the other hand there are kids who write on their phones! OMG! I cannot even imagine that.
So, so happy about the house! I follow Bobby for updates. I hope you have time to get into the new place before it snows. It was in the 40s here last night! I was pretty excited but am praying for a long, long fall and not an early winter.
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Date: 2021-09-24 12:57 am (UTC)You nailed it on the hidden costs of enjoying fandom. There are also levels of sacrifice one is willing or unwilling to make depending upon their responsibilities and lifestyle, women with a decent income and young children might have less disposable cash than an impoverished pensioner like me! I would like to make room for the categories of people you listed above. Maybe there is a way to do both--like charge a minimum and encourage people to pay more? Personally I will have less spare cash floating around than I did before I moved into my own space and no longer share expenses. I have been looking carefully at things I was paying for like Netflix!
I do think that there might be various ways of allowing people to be able to afford a small fee or even qualify for a "scholarship" but that kind of thing can be administratively overwhelming. Just some random thoughts.
I am cutting Netflix! But fannish pursuits are normally more important to me. I was paying for Questia to enhance my character bios and was devastated when they went out of business.
You have not been seeing any progress on my current WIP character bio because I need a new giant-sized computer monitor. I hope to pull that off very soon--another invisible cost of fannish participation. On the other hand there are kids who write on their phones! OMG! I cannot even imagine that.
So, so happy about the house! I follow Bobby for updates. I hope you have time to get into the new place before it snows. It was in the 40s here last night! I was pretty excited but am praying for a long, long fall and not an early winter.