Funding
Getting paid for a story while it is still being written — how audience funding works, what it looks like for novelists, screenwriters, comic and webtoon creators, and the arithmetic behind it.
- 9 min read
Fan Funding for Writers: Getting Paid Before the Book Exists
The gap between starting a story and having something to sell is measured in years. Fan funding closes it — small, repeated contributions from the readers already following the work, with no campaign to launch and nothing promised in advance.
- 8 min read
How Novelists Fund a Book Before It's Finished
A novel takes two to four years and produces nothing sellable until the end. The way out is not to sell the unfinished book — it is to notice that the world around it was finished eighteen months ago.
- 8 min read
Funding a Comic or Webtoon Without Running a Campaign
Comics have a second person to pay, and the money is needed before any revenue exists. The audience conditions, though, are the best of any format — which makes continuous funding a better fit here than almost anywhere else.
- 8 min read
How Screenwriters Fund Original IP With No Product to Sell
A spec feature or a pilot bible has nothing to preorder, which puts screenwriters outside nearly every funding model available to writers. The way in is to treat the world as the thing — and demonstrated audience interest as evidence in the room.
- 7 min read
Funding a Tabletop or Game World Your Players Already Live In
In games the setting is the product, the players are already inside it, and they have loud opinions about canon. That combination makes audience funding fit tabletop better than any other format.
- 8 min read
What Readers Will Actually Pay For (It Isn't the Story)
Writers assume an audience pays for pages. The evidence from every direct-funding model points somewhere else — toward access, participation, and the feeling of being early to something.
- 7 min read
How Much Can a Writer Actually Earn From Audience Funding?
An honest look at the arithmetic — what the first milestone requires, what a small engaged audience produces, and why the early numbers matter for a reason other than the money.
- 7 min read
Creator Payouts, Fees, and Actually Getting Paid
The unglamorous half of funding: what the platform takes, when the money becomes yours, how it reaches your bank, and the questions worth asking of any service that holds your earnings.
- 7 min read
Where Your 10% Goes: CanonBoard's Funding Economics, Published
Most platforms state a fee and stop. Here is the whole arithmetic — what we charge, what processing actually costs, why we pass it through instead of burying it, and which contributions are a bad deal for the creator.