Richard, I've been giving a lot of thought to your post, but I'm still confused about where you're coming from with the subscription idea.
The sort of feedback you talk about here is invaluable to a writer. If there's any paying going on, it should be the other way around. Especially when your judgement is final anyway. Or have I completely misunderstood?
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Subscribers get to discuss the work with me and among themselves. They can suggest changes or point out absurdities. I can ask them to go off and do research on my behalf (entirely voluntary on their part), freeing up some of the time that I spend updating the blog. If bullied sufficiently, I will set up polls so they can vote on plot details ("Should Edward try to seduce Mandy at their first meeting? Yes/No/Maybe"), but not on overall direction. I can be persuaded, but my judgement there is final, even though I risk the ire of the community, since a novel by its nature cannot be a true collaboration.
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