Weekly Update - 12 August, 2024

Hey everyone.

It's been sort of a mixed week here. On the one hand, I've made another 7,000 words of steady progress, putting me partway through the last Hekate scene of Chapter One. So it's not quite done, but it's on the way there, and will definitely be finished this week, at which point I'll also be able to move on to Chapter Two.

In less-good news, I've been losing a lot of subscribers over the last few months, and it might not be long at this rate before I am no longer able to sustain myself with the money I make through writing. This puts me in a complicated position, and may require that I step back slightly from my projects, slowing my progress in order to devote more attention to searching for a conventional job.

I don't want to do that, so I'm hoping that the upcoming Patreon price restructure and FoA being officially published will help replenish those numbers, but probably around the end of September, I'm going to have to make a serious assessment about whether writing for a living is something that can support me at this time.

I will, of course, never stop writing in general—it's just a question about how fast I'll be able to work on my projects, and whether I need to be looking at doing something else alongside FoA that might be a little more well-received in general. Anyway, I don't mean to doom-and-gloom here; these are just the things that are on my mind right now as my living becomes significantly less secure than it was at the end of last year. I know I took five months to edit, and that probably lost me a lot of support, but it's the recent dip that's really pushing things to the limit.

But then I doubt I have to tell anyone that it's hard to make a living as an artist.

In any case! I'm looking forward to getting into Chapter Two, and I hope you all are excited to start reading it! It's also my birthday this week, so here's hoping there will be come cake involved. Cake makes everything better.

Have a great week, everyone, and don't forget to be good to one another. :)