Restructuring Proposal (Patreon)

(Posting to you all first before wider public circulation. Would love your thoughts n.n)

Edit 4/8: Moved voting in general polls to $1 and trying to decide on something else for $5.

I will start with the fact that my ultimate goal is for my writing as a whole to pay for my student loans. My writing paying for the education I got to be a writer is pretty sweet. Full disclosure, I currently pay $350. I currently make $115, which is about a third of that.

I currently average ~30k words a month (or 1k a day) and my Patreon work can account for all of that. If everyone supporting me right now submits ideas I potentially have ~5.5k of Micro Fiction, ~10k of Flash Fiction, and ~10k of Sketch. Granted, not everyone submits every month, but I have to anticipate that upper limit.

And that is partly my fault for wanting to make sure everyone had the chance for a story, because at first no one was joining so I sweetened the pot and then there was this burst of activity and now things are kind of stuck because people want to support me, but I cannot really offer much more either with my prices as they are. 

Which is why I really want to get the Anthologies off the ground so that people can purchase them, but that then comes back to not being able to grow the Patreon to meet those goals. When I consider the current milestone goals of adding various degrees of art to the anthologies, I need to sell a lot of extra copies to just net zero.

So, here's my proposal for you all...

$1 - "Reader's Club" 

You get early access to PDF versions of stories, WIP previews, the ability to vote in most polls and my swelling regards.

$5 - "Publisher's Club"

On top of Reader's Club perks, you get anthologies, and vote on the next phase of a new ongoing story only available to $5+ Clubs

$10 - "Micro Fiction Club" 

On top of Publisher's Club perks, you get a Micro Fiction commission (~750 words).

$20 - "Flash Fiction Club" (Limit 5)

Your Micro Fiction Commission is upgraded to a ~2k Flash Fiction Commission.

$40 - "Sketching Club" (Limit 1)

Your 2.5k Flash Fiction commission is upgraded to a ~4k Sketch Commission.