Conversation Post: Answer 5

[k_a_webb]

From: meepalicious at LJ.

How did you get started?

Before I made the decision to crowdfund I was posting the odd story for a bingo challenge on LiveJournal. None of those stories are canon now, because things changed so much. I set up a separate journal on LJ to post those stories and it was that I decided to use as a place to start crowdfunding. First I posted some fiction that, back then, wasn’t for anything that I actually planned to write, but they were stories that I needed to write. Anyone who is a writer probably knows that feeling.

Then I had a prompt session. I had no idea what I was doing, but it seemed like a good way of starting my crowdfunding career, and it was great fun, although I still occasionally have trouble writing stories for prompts. Sometimes it is because the prompt is difficult and at other times it’s because I can’t write the story the way it needs to be written. Often I’ll have several attempts at a prompt, so I can write the right story, but for that first session the plan was to post them all on the day I got the prompt. I think I even managed to do it. Originally my plan for the sessions was to have them paid by time period rather than word count, which is something I may still experiment with, and I’ve never earnt much from a session, even though I have managed to write some wonderful stories thanks to the prompts I’ve received.

Once that happened I needed to sort out a system for keeping my fiction in order. I have to admit that’s still a work in progress even after two years, but I’m getting there, slowly. When I started I had no idea I’d be writing so much and for so many different collections, because the plan originally was to write for the Donor House (although it was a different place then); the Fae School (which has grown more than I believed possible); the Brotherhood; Thear (because it’s a world I’ve been writing about since I was 15) and write the occasional piece for the others; but then the World Walkers happened, some of the fiction I wrote for the others was found to be interesting, and now I’m writing for 12 different collections that all seemed to be liked by someone.

From then on I wanted to experiment with everything and early on I set up a number of things I’d never seen before but thought would be interesting, including the adoptions and rentals. I also borrowed the idea of people being able to earn something if they commented or linked by putting in place the credit system. That’s something I would love to have more people involved with.

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.