10.08 delayed till Tuesday
Added 2024-03-17 01:02:38 +0000 UTCAttention. I am keeping this short but announcing that the chapter has been delayed to Tuesday. This is NOT a break or burnout. It’s a classic.
10.08 now stands at 41,000 words. I wrote it in two days…and I was editing today, but I’m not satisfied with my energy levels. I’m blasted, and this is me stepping back and saying that, for the good of the chapter, I need more time.
Ironically, if this were next month, I’d have a week to have done this and edit, and I wouldn’t be writing 40k in general. In theory.
Regardless, bear with me. I’m not happy with stream-reader or beta-reader responses, and I am going to keep tailoring the chapter until it’s good enough to post. Expect at least 40k on Tuesday. More, subject to rewrites. Wish me luck and thanks for understanding.
This has been a productive month. Probably because it’s the last one I’m going to write at this intense a pace. After 10.08 is one last chapter on Saturday before my break. I already foresee some…Crelers clogging up the works, but I’m gonna just do my best.
10.08 will be out on Tuesday, the 19th of March.
Comments
Queen, take all the time !!
Ben Jones
2024-04-05 20:57:07 +0000 UTCIt wasn't done
Aliased
2024-03-20 15:57:54 +0000 UTCOh darn I forgot about time differences 🙈
limabean
2024-03-20 01:18:17 +0000 UTCI love how you said that but didn't include a time zone.
Randomdigits
2024-03-20 01:11:24 +0000 UTCThank you I will try to stay sane until then.
limabean
2024-03-20 00:59:13 +0000 UTCUsually anywhere between 730 and 1130
Maybe Someone
2024-03-20 00:34:03 +0000 UTCNo rush but is there a time when the chapter usually is posted yall? 👀 I don't think I can sleep tonight
Halimah Ahmadzai
2024-03-20 00:19:27 +0000 UTCWe demand a sacrifice!
Chargcake
2024-03-19 20:19:11 +0000 UTChey umm, i’m starting to look like Dave Chappell in the crack head skit….. umm… got any more of them “chappys”?? i’m fiending over here and need my fix!
Mike
2024-03-19 16:29:59 +0000 UTCIf you don't feel that you're getting your money's worth, then unsubscribe. Complaining repeatedly that you feel cheated over a voluntary contribution rather than simply unsubscribing is you acting like a martyr. End of thread.
Sean M.
2024-03-18 23:45:04 +0000 UTCWho is trying to be a martyr? I'm saying that if you promise to produce a given service for a given price you should do it. That should be the expectation. Are you suggesting that accepting money for a product doesn't indicate a responsibility to provide that product?
Randomdigits
2024-03-18 23:24:08 +0000 UTCThen drop your subscription and go read the free chapters dude. If you feel cheated by getting a novel length chapter several times a month, nothing anybody here says or does is going to convince you otherwise. This is Patreon, the premise is being a patron of arts, if you don't want to continue doing it then nobody is forcing you. Pirate releases the chapters for free 3 days after posting them here, you're not a martyr for crying about a delay.
Sean M.
2024-03-18 23:16:21 +0000 UTCTrueeee pirateaba needs a think tank team to inspire them (if there isn't one already)
afgasd adgasd
2024-03-18 23:07:56 +0000 UTCNo, read the tiers. I posted the benefits of the $5 tier. I agree that they are not beholden to a publisher's schedule but they should follow the terms they set. The author should be providing what they state they will provide. It isn't relevant at all to me what other authors do. If I tell you I'm am going to do a job for you at a certain price you expect it to be done right? I can't just say, well look what the guy down the road does.
Randomdigits
2024-03-18 23:06:23 +0000 UTCI disagree. If Erin was there, you are right. She would never sell the potions if there was a shortage. Lyonette is a completely different story. Erin is the one who normally has to convince Lyonette to take the moral high ground. Lyonette did several things that weren’t morally sound in Volume 8 to protect Mrsha, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it happened again
Patrick Borosky
2024-03-18 22:57:28 +0000 UTCWhat you're being promised is two chapters ahead. It is most professional to set a reliable schedule if you're writing in serial, but the author isn't beholden to a publisher's schedule or supported by a publishing house staff, and needs to handle all aspects of publication themselves, so this is not rare with authors on Patreon or in the indie field at all. Beware of Chicken and Dragoneye Moon take month long breaks with 3K word chapters. You aren't getting ripped off, but Pirateabba is nice enough to not make you wait ten chapters, or twenty, so you won't miss much if you do stop paying.
Scott Soper
2024-03-18 22:10:14 +0000 UTCProblem with that idea is that no one at The Wandering Inn would sell lifesaving medication they got for free in the middle of a global shortage. They still might switch it up in the future for the sake of healing folks but the Inn needs gold to survive and establish allied groups in the short term, so gold is not a bad idea.
Scott Soper
2024-03-18 22:00:40 +0000 UTCI view it as Creator says they will do A, I pay for A. I expect A to be provided. Why have tiers with set rewards?
Randomdigits
2024-03-18 19:57:46 +0000 UTCYeah. And that's why there's also a free option if you no longer feel like you're getting your money's worth from the Patreon. I've always considered my Patreon subscriptions as support for the writer, not "paying for content", but everyone looks at it in their own way I'm sure.
Splutty
2024-03-18 13:39:37 +0000 UTCYeah I can understand that. I’m also wondering when Lyonette will realize she could be making way more money with Erin’s new box skill when she realizes she can copy healing potions or at least Eir gel
Patrick Borosky
2024-03-18 09:53:33 +0000 UTCYou should provide for your patrons what you promise. We should be getting 8-9 chapters a month. That is what we got when I started supporting. It's a pretty simple concept.
Randomdigits
2024-03-18 09:21:07 +0000 UTCHonestly that all makes sense. I wish there was perhaps a concerned conversation with lyonette about the chronomancer between then and now
afgasd adgasd
2024-03-18 01:32:04 +0000 UTCno problem take all the time you need. and if you need to delay it further it's ok!
Valmorian
2024-03-18 01:00:20 +0000 UTCI don't think we'll hear anything about the time-traveling chronomancer and his warnings for a while. It seemed like the guy getting killed is far off in the future, and Erin was mainly focusing on the Winter Solstice. The Blighted King needs to wipe out the demons before the chronomancer gets 'betrayed', and it seems like that isn't happening anytime soon. However, Erin has a really good chance of meeting Tom soon now that she is in Baleros - maybe she'll pass on the warning to Tom, but I doubt it. She's getting as bad as Ryoka on keeping secrets. Not that I would trust Tom with a secret of that magnitude. The teaser on level skills is a pirateaba special :) Remember after Erin got level 40, it took her like 8 chapters to even touch on the [Garden of Sanctuary]. Personally, I just need Erin to regain some of her light-heartedness, which has been missing since the beach chapters. I need some of the happiness back!
Patrick Borosky
2024-03-17 23:55:06 +0000 UTCHappy I saved the last chapter and haven't read it yet, that said I am super happy you decided not to publish something you are not happy with. Don't ever publish something due to a timeline, quality over quantity every time.
CromCruach
2024-03-17 23:33:28 +0000 UTCTake your time. I’ve got eight or ten other books in progress. Tonight I’ll go see Dune with Shirley. . . You’ll be ready when you ready.
Stanley Johnson
2024-03-17 23:19:22 +0000 UTCNow I love that you have decided to go for only one chapter per week and I hope that does you some permanent good. But there is only one thing I think might be a bad idea. And that is to artificially limit how much a chapter should be. We all know how you write, you do not decide that the next chapter is 40k+ it does just happen, because your gut told you, you need more space to develop a situation or character. Now perhaps that makes you grow as a writer and makes you far better at archiving more with less. An ability that you do probably lack somewhat, at least compared to the current genre giants. So I would advise, if you chose to take it, to simply try to make what you write more efficient and keep the chapter smaller if you can but if your gut tells you otherwise, just do that.
Tobias Wahl
2024-03-17 21:49:51 +0000 UTCCool, chapters are now 500 words apiece and exactly on time every week :) is that better? Arent you glad now? Seriously though, pirate puts out a firehose of content, and the patreon chapter becomes free after literally 3 days
Sean M.
2024-03-17 21:47:32 +0000 UTCPeople feel cheated when the literal terms on the patreon aren't followed. " Twice a week, I release a new password-protected chapter and make the previous one public to everyone."
Randomdigits
2024-03-17 20:09:34 +0000 UTCThe 19 th is my birthday, so thanks for the gift. 😆
Devon
2024-03-17 15:00:32 +0000 UTCThanks for telling us, and I'm always happy when you you tell us something like that. Always gives me hope you get somewhat of a break too. :)
Konrad2
2024-03-17 14:58:57 +0000 UTCShe’s probably waiting for the king to make his move and checkmate his ass with the chronomancer.
Oxysmarton
2024-03-17 05:00:23 +0000 UTCYour rate of writing has often made me think you are pulling a bourbaki. But it is very consistent for a bourbaki. We will be here ready to ready whenever you publish.
Gaurav Patil
2024-03-17 03:52:23 +0000 UTC👍
John Koor
2024-03-17 03:13:39 +0000 UTCChapters don't need to be giant, splitting up whatever you do write into Tuesday and Saturday would be preferred bc it's nice Word count has become a huge focus but what I want is meaningful story development and unanswered questions to find some resolution(regardless of word count, and if given a choice, to the detriment of word count if it's one or the other). Erin has done nothing about the warnings from the literal time travelling chronomancer (at least that we know of) and it's become a really big gripe for me! Im not sure if I've forgotten any reason why its been left unaddressed I'll be honest the story isnt focusing on the most important things to me personally as the reader. I REALLY WANT CONTENT ABOUT ERINS LEVEL 50 SKILL THAT WAS TEASED FOR LIKE A YEAR. And I want time to pass and to see the effects of it and harvest that sweet sweet delayed gratification. The surface has been scratched and I know it's literally because you're trying to figure out for yourself how op and balance breaking it essentially is going to be. the last thing I wanted was an interlude putting that farther off, but mostly i really don't like that saliss entire identity this chapter and lately has been oppressed traumatized transgender exile (they literally go around naked all over the place anyways as a statement and everyone is generally desensitized, I'm kinda over it not gonna lie, you've totally lost my plausible belief in saliss as a character and how the world treats them the moment I think about it). The chapter was enjoyable tho despite that There's massive word counts but what I REALLY want is not being covered (you've got me hyper fixated, or maybe I just did that to myself) I want Erin to do something about the chronomancers warning that we know of as the reader
afgasd adgasd
2024-03-17 03:05:38 +0000 UTCPeople get used to a certain rate, and then feel cheated when they get less, even if that "less" is still a magnitude more than what you'd get from somewhere else.
Splutty
2024-03-17 02:24:15 +0000 UTCNumber of words mean nothing if all of them are used to describe the same thing over and over and almost none are used to move story forward
Steve
2024-03-17 02:00:03 +0000 UTCTake all the time you need! A good chapter later is better than a not-so-good chapter now.
Avi Rubinoff
2024-03-17 01:57:18 +0000 UTCI call BS the delays have been happening more and more
Steve
2024-03-17 01:56:19 +0000 UTCOmg 41k words, can't wait till Tuesday!!!!!! also I think I just converted a friend to the cult of the wandering inn
ScubaSteve
2024-03-17 01:53:27 +0000 UTCdo what works for you :)
thomas j walters
2024-03-17 01:48:46 +0000 UTCWeird seeing people gripe about chapter rate when the amount of content in each one is so much lol. Do whatever you need to to keep quality at a good standard without burning yourself out, keep up the great work!
Sean M.
2024-03-17 01:37:14 +0000 UTCWhy should an author not just post a chapter they are unsatisfied with? Is that the question? If you’ve read this exceedingly substantial and quality novel up to this point, updated to the scale of one Return of the King per month, you already have your answer.
Adam Israel
2024-03-17 01:33:11 +0000 UTCNo worries! Glad you care enough about the quality to make that tough decision. I like to think of this as a preview for how the posting schedule will be starting next month, so I don't see an issue.
Ryan Monahan
2024-03-17 01:21:11 +0000 UTCReally appreciate all the hard work Pirate. Getting 60k+ words of content per week for as long as we have is insane. I don't think people get how absurd it is to wrire at your pace. Look after yourself and do whatever you think is best for the story and your sanity!
Martinus Chrisjan
2024-03-17 01:19:38 +0000 UTCWe have so many size queens in this fandom. Bigger isn't better. I'd much rather have regular, smaller updates than bloated, infrequent updates.
Randomdigits
2024-03-17 01:19:36 +0000 UTCI understand writing 40000 words in a week is something few authors could be expected to do on a regular basis at some point you have to slow down so the quality of your work doesn't suffer.
TNM
2024-03-17 01:19:25 +0000 UTCThey used to be. Now that they make more money off the audio books than they do the Patreon it seems like the Patreon supports don't matter as much.
Randomdigits
2024-03-17 01:17:54 +0000 UTCTake your time
Gerelt Tsolmon
2024-03-17 01:15:54 +0000 UTCWhere else you get 100k+ words chapters per month?
Gerelt Tsolmon
2024-03-17 01:15:37 +0000 UTCYou picked a bad time over all pirate has been good about out put. With the one chapter a week switch I expect a fair number of people to drop back to free.
Arg
2024-03-17 01:15:32 +0000 UTCSo only 4 chapters this month? How is it deferent from what you will be doing next month? Too many breaks and not enough chapters. Why not post it tomorrow?
Steve
2024-03-17 01:13:51 +0000 UTCShe was prepping us for a delay so I’m not surprised at least.
devin brown
2024-03-17 01:12:56 +0000 UTCI AM WAITING PATIENTLY!!!Dumbledore said calmly.
Oxysmarton
2024-03-17 01:12:13 +0000 UTCI joined a couple a months ago because I really love this story. But since joining it’s been more breaks and late notice cancels than actual chapters. Maybe I have bad timing but at this point I’ll go back to consuming this as a free product, which is an amazing product, but I’m literally not getting what I’m paying for
Dominick Bruce
2024-03-17 01:11:29 +0000 UTCthe geese will be well fed next tuesday, it seems! i'm glad u made the call to delay the chapter for the sake of quality. all the best in refining this chapter, and thanks for the hard work as always. looking forward to next month to see how u respond to the new updating arrangement
orange
2024-03-17 01:10:20 +0000 UTCThis sure has been happening a lot.
Randomdigits
2024-03-17 01:08:52 +0000 UTCDarn i won’t lie I was definitely looking forward to this because I suspect/hope this will be the chapter Erin and the Titan meet in person, but I totally understand that you have to make it right before you release it. Get some rest!
Jordan
2024-03-17 01:08:25 +0000 UTCYou do you, Pirate. I can wait, I just resubbed D+ so I’ve got a weekend of binging X-men.
Eldritch Murder God of Crochet
2024-03-17 01:07:14 +0000 UTCthe suspense is worth the wait! thanks for everything you do for us and please please please take care of yourself so the show can keep going!!!
Mike
2024-03-17 01:06:53 +0000 UTCThe ides of March strike again! Excited for the new chappie, thanks for the update!
Samuel Schooley
2024-03-17 01:06:16 +0000 UTCOkeydoke, thanks much for all your hard work! Really admire your commitment to putting out a good product
Patrick Sheehy
2024-03-17 01:05:21 +0000 UTCWe are happy to wait as long as Nerrys possession of Erin is revealed. The lambs puppetry will be revealed!
Finn Ryan
2024-03-17 01:04:29 +0000 UTC
