Here are my truths: 1. I never thought about any of this until recently 2. Even without donations, writing has provided some cool experiences 3. And yet, thi

Here are my truths: 1. I never thought about any of this until recently 2. Even without donations, writing has provided some cool experiences 3. And yet, thinking about it, I would love to make more off my writing 4. I don't want to sacrifice the quality of my writing for my income. Placing ads (and hell, even donation links, but especially ads) creates a perverse incentive to create more content than I want to, and to make it ugly to rank high in Google. Above all else, I want to keep my writing human, even if it means I don't make a dollar. So, with all this in mind (and to provide "advice" for others looking at this) 1. I don't want to force people to subscribe to a newsletter. I might add a newsletter, because I've been told that building trust takes time, but that's low on my priority list. 2. I don't want to add google ads or whatever. 3. I've recently (today) added Ko-fi in addition to liberapay. I thought that people who actually wanted to give me money would be willing to use paypal through a platform they haven't used before, but I'm not sure this is the case. Right now, only 1% of people who have clicked that donate link have actually donated 4. The plea is much more effective than a simple link in getting people to click 5. Corporate sponsorships are a possibility imo, but I haven't yet recieved one that didn't involve me selling out my readers somehow. Ultimately, I think the harsh reality is that projects must place themselves on a spectrum of "make fuck tons of money" and "make fuck tons of people happy"