Deprioritizing Monthly Content (Patreon)

I've come to a significant decision regarding my work.

For the past couple years I've been trying my damnedest to make sure that I get at least one piece of writing and art posted every month to continue showing the progress that I'm making as a creator. This has worked out decently well for me more often than not.

But last year something happened. I wrote and completed Rising Tide, my first extensive long-term writing project, significantly longer than anything I had created in a long time. I had cast off the shackles of my long-standing inability to complete any of the multi-part stories I endeavored to create. It was new territory for me. It whetted my appetite.

Around the same time back in October, I had started Stains, the much bigger follow-up to Tinged. I have made significant progress on it, but it is still nowhere near completion. And, in the time since then, I have only been thinking of more and more big projects that I would like to work on.

Consequently, I no longer feel the same sense of satisfaction from completing small stories. My ambition has overtaken my past desires.

I want nothing more than to complete Stains before the end of October, so that it doesn't end up taking more than a year to finish, and so that I can then move on to whatever I want to do next. So, to that end, I've decided that from now on I'm going to make long-term projects my primary focus. If I'm struck with the inspiration to work on something smaller in scale, then I'll get that out, but I'm no longer going to fight with myself by splitting up my focus over and over again.