Lost in the Flood or hide Behind an Imaginary Paywall? - Or, 'Why Patreon May Not Be For You"

So Brood Parasites is off Patreon.  I gave it the good old college try, but in the end getting traffic there was just too hard.  There's the usual issue of just trying to get people interested in your work, bu in Patreon's case I believe another issue was the prevalence of dollar signs everywhere.  Well, that's Patreon's raison d'être; monetise art.  But in my case I wasn't trying to do that, just get people to read Brood.  I was offering it for free, but there will always be a kind of invisible barrier to most people who feel they should be paying for something, even if its being freely offered, and will avoid it.Or maybe not.That was another reason I feel I wasn't making any progress on Patreon was the complete lack of any traffic oversight.  I could have had thousands of people reading me (note - there's no way in hell this was happening), and I could never know.  The only way to track that was through paying backers, and, well, that wasn't my intention.  I felt a little icky asking for money for something which wasn't complete yet.So, I've moved the project to Wattpad.  Here there's no question the art isn't free, and tracking traffic is much easier.  However, not I'm very much underneath the flood.  There's a lot of writing there.  A.  Lot.  And the search function, while better than Patreon's is still very much slewed to already popular works.Still, I feel I'm further ahead of the game.  I've started at the beginning again, but we're already up to Chapter Fivem so come on down and re-read the beginning of the adventure.Michael