[Copy of latest post to my Ko-fi page]
A few things going on.
First, new article on Dog Fennel is live. I’ll post the link in a supporters-only post in just a sec.
I’m gonna be changing the membership tiers around a little. Clearly, one article a week was far, far too ambitious – maybe at all, no matter what, but certainly at the membership level and platform size we’re talking about currently. I will definitely revisit how much time I can spend writing articles at the next membership milestone, but I’d need to at least triple the current readership to be able to fight a winning fight for the time every week.
However, I should also note that at least some portion of it being overly ambitious is directly connected to my occasionally ridiculous perfectionism trips. So in addition to adjusting the writing rate goal, I’m also gonna get more articles up by deciding and announcing that what I post at the project site will be drafts rather than finished articles. They weren’t editor-ready anyway – the idea that they were pretty much done was really just a mental category and not a label with any real meaning. So I’m going to give myself permission to post drafts even if I know the pictures suck or I don’t have the sources lined up right or whatever.
As part of that, instead of drafting on Discord and then publishing “finished” articles for membership supporters elsewhere, I’m going to put everything at the Bayou Hoodoo Herbal site. Discord was not designed to support anything like long-form prose or text editing anyway. It was not my brightest idea to write drafts there.
So there’ll just be the one website with new articles posting with password protection. I’ll send those out via this platform right here until I can figure out a mailing list or something, if that even ends up being needed.
So the tiers will be like this:
Bronze – access to articles as I draft them, which should be once a month; thanks/social media shoutouts; Discord access for discussion and questions
Silver – access to “secret shop” of Bayou Hoodoo Herbal formulas, all of which ship with a printed recipe.
Gold – beta testing/trial student opportunities as I develop materials for a future course and new line of products
Platinum – gift box of Bayou Hoodoo Herbal stuff delivered to your doorstep. I will generally have one new item or formula per month, but I will probably ship several items at once every 2 or 3 months rather than every month, because shipping is just ridiculous and because my ADHD is just off the charts
URL and password incoming.