Speaking as someone else that intends to become a backer; but who, (having been quite incautious with his funds this month thanks to a NOT-TO-BE-MISSED sale on gog.com,) cannot become so untill the beginning of next month and my monetary reserves are again refreshed: I would like to give some insight into my future plans for my own use of this subscription.
I am minded to become, if present trends continue, the first backer at the $18.00 mark.
I chose this for several reasons:
1: I am minded that at the present time that level has no backers, and I fancy the notion of being Unique, at least for a little while perhaps...
2: I DON'T want to have any "highlights" on my roster, the whole concept galls me: I will rise or fall by my own efforts and those of my friends, not something bought and paid for.
3: I want to enlist the help of the noble and talented worthies who have volunteered to write chapters for backers...
4: But, not for myself! My intent is to find an abandoned but worthy story or thread each month, this will no doubt take some searching, and bestow upon it my 'largesse'. I have several ideas in mind already, some stories to which I've contributed in the past, others things I have read penned by authors now departed that I should dearly love to see continued, stories of great promise left unfinished...
5: and this is the final note of my contribution: those of you who have volunteered and not yet made for yourselves a Patreon page, do so now. While I shall not abide shoddy workmanship, and my standards are high indeed, (I myself do not messure up to what I expect, part of why I write here as opposed to for a publisher...) I will first be testing the mettle of those with Patreon accounts so that they get a taste of what it feels like to be receive the ultimate compliment for their craft: cash on the barrel head!