Donations and Promotions

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

One thing I like about the site (WordPress) I have our story/stories on is that you can get a daily tracking stat and what is being read and where it is being linked. Admittedly we have only been 'live' for about six months. I know that many of you have been around much longer.

We are getting promoted here and there (Woot! Some search engines have picked us up!), but I noticed we were getting a lot of views of our donation page. We are also getting very few comments, which either means that the story is very entertaining or people don't think it is worth the effort to leave any kind of comment. *shrug*

So, in trying to think like a person who might enjoy the story, but is unsure why we have the brass to ask for donations, I wrote this about our our reasons for requesting donations for our work. And people are reading it. Hopefully they are also thinking about it. Or maybe even promoting the site in their own blogs.

So, what are you telling (theoretical) questioners about your reasons for requesting donations or payment for you work? Artists who put out tangible product have the physical object, but what about those of us who do intangible things like web-published stories and such? What kind of response do you get?