Hello, I'm Oatmeal Joey, and your third point is so important. Crowd funding is so elevating in so many ways. Beyond that, my favorite point you made was the 4th point, that ongoing feedback helps in the edits, he rough drafts, the journey, the adventure, through storms towards rainbows, and it helps people and points 3 and 4 go together like peas in a pod and that is key. People are likely to fund more as they are able to interact more in the process that projects and life is subjected to. Not everybody can be an author, perhaps..... but Steem helps us all, especially if we are lacking a lot of friends, family, others, who can help us in writing books, in other kinds of projects as well.