[Edited!] Chapter update delayed for 1 day + Q&A questions! (Patreon)

Edit: I've decided to add the following to the post, since I had mentioned TO is ending soon, and wanted to address this further!

The ideal would always be to continue working on Take Off - I love the boys a lot and have ideas jot down for more of their story to be told!! But as a creator I'd love to have a finished project, and Take Off was always intended to end soon, and I want to uphold that. If there's more it'd probably feel more like a spin off or a new series, and I'd love to work on that, but I would need some time to properly write the story and have enough prepped to be comfortable announcing that!! And that could be weeks, months, years, even.

In the past 10 months working on Take Off, what had always been key in driving me to create and tell the stories of my characters was having a clear structure in mind, and wanting to do it justice and reach the envisioned closure I had for it. Thinking about ideas and writing them down is fun, but what I find really exciting is thinking about how I would manifest them in the medium of comics, and in the process improve as a storyteller. I'm unable to promise or guarantee that there would be more, despite personal wants of drawing more of Andrew and Nathan, because it would honestly stress me out as I start to think about how unready I am to embark on this. I understand the process is different for everyone, and I know some creators who are able to write as they go, and for me it just isn't possible.

Beyond this I also think about the other stories and ideas I have - completely new stories - and I want to work on them too. If I didn't have to pick and choose, I'd love to be able to manage multiple projects at once, but before that I'd need to figure out how to make it feasible, and that would require prep time too, to try juggling multiple projects, perhaps hire assistance, and see how that plays out, before I'm able to set anything in stone.

I understand the wishy washy-ness of all this can be confusing and exhausting, it's like me saying I don't want to keep people's hopes up but there is still a possibility?!?! Therefore I'd love if you can see Take Off, with the 45 chapters and all, as the complete story. It is going to end, and if there's more, it will be something different. I'm really grateful for the support and encouragement that I've received from the beginning to current, and so so so happy to see the love you all have for Andrew and Nathan, and to know you'd be excited for the new stories I may tell, is beyond anything I could hope for. I don't know how this has become an essay, but I hope this answers any doubts you may have, and perhaps, part of why I had written this, was for myself, too.

Thank you!

-Jui

Original Post:

Hi everyone,

The next chapter update for all tiers will be delayed for a day! Chapters will be out on Friday (August 13th) at around 9pm EST!! And the same goes for updates on Webtoons. I apologize for the delay, and really appreciate your patience in all this!

On a side note: I have plans for Take Off to end at around Chapter 45, which means it's pretty soon!!! I would love to do a Q&A near the end, and because I'm a turtle, I thought it wouldn't hurt to prep for this a little earlier! Therefore, please leave any questions you have for the characters/the series/the process(?) in the comments!!!

There's no deadline to when you need to submit questions by (I suppose as long as it's before Ch45 is first released on Patreon!) So feel free to come back to this post whenever with your questions!! :)

Thanks so much again for your love and support as always!! See you guys with a new chapter a little later this week!

x, jui