Would people support a fund raiser? (Patreon)

Update: Wow! It's only been two days but I've already received $200 through Ko-Fi to go towards the laptop. I'm blown away, and you people are amazing. I'm working hard to get commissions done to raise more money, and I'm looking forward to the update on Friday the 10th when I'll post the first stories for November. I'm sticking with the original release schedule, and if the donations keep up I can keep the changes to the tier system reserved until the two year anniversary in March. Thank you again to everyone who's donated!

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Hi everyone, I've gotten some amazing feedback from patrons regarding the proposed tier changes. So far the general opinion seems positive towards the new tiers, with the biggest complaint being how quickly I was going to roll it out because of my situation. The truth is I had planned to make these changes early next year when my patreon officially passed its two year anniversary, but my need for a new laptop made me want to put it out faster. Right now I'm working hard on commissions to hold off on the changes, and to that end people have been proposing making one time donations, which would mean that I could leave the tiers as they are for now.

As some of you know I have an account with Ko-Fi, where you can make one time donations to help out creators with everyday expenses. The donation has to be divisible by 3, so you can donate anywhere from $3 to $27. If I can manage to raise about $300 or $400 in donations to Ko-Fi, then I could couple that with the commission payments to hopefully have a decent laptop by the end of the year. To do that I would only need more than one hundred people to donate $3 each, since Ko-Fi takes a 10% cut but it does keep my real name anonymous. If I do manage to raise that much going into December than I'll keep the tiers as they are and implement the new system around March or so. 

http://ko-fi.com/sammynona

Let me know what you think about the idea, and I don't expect everyone to pay up more support. I'll be making posts on tumblr as well to try and drive up some support from my fans there. My biggest regret about the proposed tier changes was how soon I was doing it, considering I'm only just back up to steam after my injury. I had wanted to put out a few months of regular content and build a buffer before making changes, and if people are willing to donate on Ko-Fi then I'll promise to put out my monthly content as normal and set the changes up for early next year.

On the good news front I'm just finishing the last story to go up on the 10th, and already have some progress on the stories being published on the 20th. I'm writing faster than ever and making good work towards cleaning out the commissions I have right now. I'm desperate for money so if anyone also wants to support me by commissioning a short story I'd be happy to discuss it. My current price is a penny per word, so a 3,000 word story is $30, and a 5,000 word story is $50.

PS: I also just found out that I'm in the beta access for a new early access feature. My big problem with not doing an early access tier is because it would be too confusing to keep track of which stories were posted when, but patreon's new feature let's me post a story to the early access tier, and then make it available to others a set number of days later. I have to look into it more, but would people be interested in seeing an early access tier for stories? What do you think would be a fair price towards it? Let me know below