{"id":409,"date":"2009-10-12T16:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T16:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2009-10-12T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T16:35:24","slug":"teh-hotness-omikuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Teh Hotness &#8211; &#8216;Omikuji&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/omikuji.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/omikuji-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Omikuji Project\" title=\"Omikuji Project\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-410\" \/><\/a>Kim Neville has put together an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=179\"> interesting assessment<\/a> of Catherynne M. Valente&#8217;s new project &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherynnemvalente.com\/omikuji\/\">Omikuji<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little known but well documented fact that people who write short stories for a living cannot make a living writing short stories for a living. (got that?)<\/p>\n<p>Valente&#8217;s Omikuji is an attempt to make a living at writing short stories by getting her readers to subscribe to her stories.  Every month, her subscribers get an exclusive story that will not be published anywhere else.  It&#8217;s her interpretation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2008\/03\/1000_true_fans.php\">1000 True Fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that?  $10\/month for a limited, collectible piece of work from your favorite creator.  <\/p>\n<p>What happened if someone else did this?  Why aren&#8217;t more people doing this?  Artists, writers, web-comicers, musicians?  One small piece of work for $10\/month from your fans.  <\/p>\n<p>For smaller webcomics, it could be half of one month&#8217;s rent (even one fan is $120\/year).  <\/p>\n<p>For established creators, it could reach five figures easily.  <\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/\">Penny-Arcade<\/a> did this, I bet they could close to a million dollars\/year &#8211; all for doing what they love and giving it to the people who love them for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Neville has put together an interesting assessment of Catherynne M. Valente&#8217;s new project &#8211; Omikuji. It&#8217;s a little known but well documented fact that people who write short stories for a living cannot make a living writing short stories for a living. (got that?) Valente&#8217;s Omikuji is an attempt to make a living at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teh Hotness &#8211; &#8216;Omikuji&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}