Another New Thought; Looking For Input (Patreon)

I've been considering my options for what to do going forward. Again.

I feel like the decision to try to do shorter scenes worked out. I was able to get two stories done in the span of two weeks. The first one turned out more or less as expected though the second ended up going on a bit longer than I might have expected, which is probably indicative of the compounding effects of trying to have more than one core character and also the usual piling on of character themes, as opposed to a story that is just fetish antics. Perhaps I might not have been able to finish the second so quickly if I hadn't already been wound up by working on the first. If I want to do multiple of these per month I'd probably have to rein myself in on the drama.

It has also been suggested to me, though, what I could do to implement the option for longer content in these polls, and also what I could do to have the option to work on my own backlog of ideas. I could put up polls with the option for patrons to vote for some of the longer stories that are on my backlog (e.g. any of the Stains spin-offs), do some amount of them, then next month give the option to either continue that or switch over to something else. I'm skeptical of this, however, for the obvious reason that one of these longer stories could potentially just never get finished if it never comes back, and even if a single story does end up going all the way to completion then that would mean months with nothing else being worked on.

I think the most fair and reasonable way I could approach this would be to have two monthly polls: one for the short scene that would be up to viewer suggestions, and one for a story from my backlog, whether it be short or long. I would make some amount of progress on that story, not much more than 10k, as a baseline, and then I would put it down for later. If I could keep my pace from this month, that would mean I could finish the patron suggestion story, get some progress on the backlog story, and then even have some time leftover to work at my own discretion.

What do you all think of this? I know that there wasn't as much turnout for the previous round of suggestions, I don't know how much of that might have been because it wasn't thought of as highly or if it was because it was harder to gauge what I was aiming for. Hopefully with these latest two stories coming out, it should be clearer what a "scene" is meant to be.

(I don't know if I would be implementing this system next month anyway though, it's still early on and I want to see how easily I can keep momentum going, and since it will be May and I will be having to work on the mandatory annual Mayternity story.)