The reason I'm looking into this is that I'm thinking of doing crowdfunding for a literary project, and rather than appealing to straight philanthropy
As others have pointed out, you certainly don't have any business on MPEx.
Another place you should look for funding is btcjam. (I think there might be one or two other crowd lending btc platforms, you could do some forum and/or google searching for that, I don't remember them off the top of my head).