ABC of CROWDFUNDING (Online Workshop) 🤑💰😎 How to fund your writing projects!

Let's face it: making money as a writer isn't easy. 😢 Here, I'll will present strategies and experiences with CROWDFUNDING so that you, too, can get (financial) wind in your writing career! 😀💸🤩

I will give a presentation of financies strategies on two platforms: KICKSTARTER and PATREON based on my own succesful project which has raised more than 10,000 USD last year on Kickstarter "The Dessert that Changed the World". I will also talk about my Patreon page which I just recently started and which is off to a great start.

The focus will be on my own (science) writing, but you will learn tools applicable to raising funds for any writing.

After a presentation (about 30-45 minutes) about crowdfunding, focussing on what worked well, and what didn't work that well, we will have a group discussion and there will be time for questions.

At the end of the presentation, everyone will be prompted to prepare a short plan and pricing of their (mock) public facing crowdfunding campaign. You will be asked to answer the following questions: What products you'd like to offer as reward to supporters? How would you price them? What other strategies could you use to get succesfully funded? What are your goals? After about 20 minutes of work on your assignment, we will discuss together (some) of the plans presented by attendees.

From this workshop you will get away with is and plans for your own writing project. You will gain plenty of ideas, inspirations and suggestions that can be used on any projects, genres, mediums, plans you are developing, and crowdfunding platforms you want to explore.

This will be an online event, with link for video call shared a few days ahead!

Please be on time as we want to start together. Please make sure you understand that we have a monthly membership fee in place. I kindly ask to pay membership fee through the app (3 USD/month) or by becoming a paid member of my Patreon page (👉🏼 www.patreon.com/corradonai | Tier 1 = 2.49 USD/month is OK!). Please confirm payment before at least a few moments before joining the event and be ready to show a confirmation of payment to save time. Thank you! Membership gives access to all events of HOW TO BECOME A WRITER for 30 days after payment as well as to all events of Jakarta Creatives for 30 days after payment, and can be stopped on a monthly basis.

For any questions not answered in the project description, feel free to post a comment in the event page.

ABOUT THE HOST
Corrado Nai would describe himself as a science writer although he has experimented with many genres (including poetry, short stories, and one unpublished novella). He has a written features and commentaries for New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, Asimov Press, Small Things Considered, Fungi Magazine, Science, Reactor, and many more. He’s a recovering academic with a PhD in microbiology and has written and edited dozens of papers and theses.

Corrado Nai is currently writing a science comic about the forgotten woman who used a dessert (agar-agar) to revolutionise science and medicine, Fanny Angelina Hesse (website | Instagram) for which he raised over 10,000 USD on Kickstarter. He recently launched a Patreon page.

See you at the event!
Corrado