Another Benefit: Speed

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It occurs to me that cyberfunded creativity has another huge advantage over traditional business models: speed. To begin with, nothing does speed like cyberspace. You can travel around the world at signal speed.

Now compare that to the often-glacial pace of book or magazine publication, or art show appearances, etc. With a traditional model, you might see one major or several minor works per year from your favorite creator. With CFC, you can get material as fast as they can write, draw, sing, or otherwise emit. For some creative folks, that adds up to a lot more output.

And payments? No waiting for the friggin' twice-a-year royalty statement; creators can get money coming in daily. It might be possible, with the right audience and some careful timing of donation calls, to arrange donations in monthly surges to match when your bills come due.

I've been looking back over the life of "The Aphorisms of Kherishdar." Instead of waiting impatiently for a story or two to hit print ... we got a set of twenty-five stories, zippity-bang! The hardcopy, once conceived, also came out faster than most traditional presses would have achieved. And now another series is in progress, "The Admonishments of Kherishdar," appearing about once a week. That's exciting.