Creative community websites

[Vince Twelve]

I need a bit of help and I know I can count on the AGSers.

I'm building a website in the hopes to form a community.  Of course I'd like to be able to make enough money off of this site to cover the hosting costs and if I get some extra on top of that to pay for the time that I've spent making the site, so be it.

So, I'm trying to find as many sites of a similar nature to see what kind of business plan they have going on (subscription fees/ad revenue/donations/merchandising/corporate partnerships, etc).  I'd like to learn from their mistakes and successes and use that knowledge to help form my own business plan.

The site that I am building is along the lines of Deviant Art or Great Writing where you create your own personalized page where you can showcase your creative or intellectual work, except that my site is aiming at a different creative target audience -- one that I believe is not represented properly on the web.

So if you know of any "post your {insert creative work type here} on your own personalized page and recieve c&c from other members of the community" websites... post them here.

Thanks for your help.

Sites listed so far:

• Deviant Art
  
• Great Writing
  
• Elfwood (currently down)
  
• Art Conspiracy (also currently down)
  

[DragonRose]

www.elfwood.com is another good one. It's specifically for sci-fi/fantasy related artwork or stories, and has a lot of great tutorials as well.

[LGM]

http://www.artconspiracy.com is pretty nice.