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May Review (Patreon)

Published:
2026-06-01 17:36:26
Imported:
2026-06

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May was less productive than April in total amount of writing, but around the same for what I posted as Early Access for Patreon. May turned out to have a lot of family stuff going on and in general, my Defense of the Inner Sphere is an 'easier write' than my other stories. Both because the language is just modern as opposed to the faux-middle ages prose of ASOIAF and because the BT action sequences add word count. Either way I'm still happy overall and I think this is probably a good baseline for my Patreon production. If I extrapolate words written and consider May to be the average, I'm on track for more words than LOTR Trilogy + Hobbit in a year.

A Young Warg's Game of Thrones --> 10 Chapters published.

LitRPG Snippet --> Chapter 1 published.

Halo Crossover --> 1 Chapter published (New one comes out later today)

Inevitable Dance of the Dragons --> 1 Chapter published

A Young Woman's Defense of the Inner Sphere --> 1 Chapter published

Patreon Paid Membership went from 960 --> 1058. It seems like the biggest driver for the huge surge in April was A Young Warg's Game of Thrones. That will take priority as my 'main' work for June.

Comments

Green0Photon

Yay I love Warg's! I'm very happy that it's the priority, it's so damned good!

General Black

I absolutely love dance of the dragons and wargs game of thrones. İt is great so see at least one of them being the main focus rn

Hooli4ss

Dance of the Dragons , Wings of War, and Defense of the inner sphere are my favorites. Stayed subscribed for Halo but The Warg Lord gets better as you read.

Fourteen

I'm waiting for the wheel of time

Breaker

Warg’s is great, but I’m also a lover of your other GoT stories. Myrcella’s Game is going through the painful parts right now, but Elaena’s Dance is just getting to the crazy shit. I can’t wait.

Enkelados

Great to hear more got is coming. I have a bad habit of picking up fall ninja stories just before they get dropped

Jason Anderson

First I acknowledge I am only a single opinion and could easily be wrong. But wanted to throw my opinion out there anyway. You are the only patron I sub to and the only reason I have this account. I would say you are tied for my favorite webnovel author with Seras. If you want to grow your patreon I think you should put Halo on hiatus and work to bring your main stories to patreon. Patreon should be more "Early Access" then special or unique writing. Write 3 chapters for each of your novels, release 1 to SB and the other 2 here. Maintain a +2 if you wrote more than 2 chapters a month. If a story goes on hiatus, release those chapters publicly after a month or two, then bank more when you get back to writing that particular story. I don't think you need to do this all at once either, it can be over several months, while still releasing Warg. Imo your biggest patreon gains were from 2 particular moments; 1: you announced you were out of work and ppl advised you to go harder on patreon. This happened to be timed with the clan invasion of Terra, which IMO was your best battletech cliff hanger. People subbed when you had no patreon content in order to get you to write more battletech and just offer general support. 2. The next big jump was the death of Joffrey cliff hanger. At this point the people who generally support your work are already subbed to Patreon, now you need to give people more reasons to sub, being more novels with early access. Moving more stories over and dropping a solid cliff hanger every 5-10-20(who knows the best #) would give you the most growth in my opinion. Halo is interesting to me but it's not worth the time investment vs your existing projects.

Wunderwaffles

Happy to see you've gained more patreon subscribers. Hopefully it's reached/will reach a level able to sustain full-time writing. All your stories are great and the output in chapters is definitely very stable, so definitely kudos for that. I just wish you would focus less on your Young Warg's story over your older established stories. Personally I haven't been able to get invested in this new story the same way I love the Dance of Dragons or the Battletech stories you are writing. So more updates for both your Battletech stories and your outstanding Dance of the Dragons fic would be very welcome 🙏.

Failninjaninja

I appreciate the advice, I might make a longer post about my thoughts about that, but it really boils down to me feeling bad and worried it will be off-putting to some if I paywall early access to existing stories. AYWGOT, Halo, Warcraft, even my snippet are all new things and not existing stories. There's pros and cons to both approaches. I do think I'd get an immediate boost if I paywalled some of the Inevitable Dance, but I'm not sure if in the long-term its the right call. That story is probably my best received and can easily feed eyeballs to anything new I post just by mentioning it in the AN when I post a new chapter. I get some angst thinking about it, but this whole journey has not had any real plan in place for more than a month at a time. Originally I wasn't going to even do early access, but got talked into it, and that was 100% the right call, so we'll see!

Aerandria

For what it's worth for your metrics, I'm here for Dance of the Dragons. That's not to say I'm not enjoying the others, but I wouldn't have signed up for them.

Failninjaninja

Thank you! From an income standpoint, at this level I'm able to sustain myself with the leftover savings from my severance for the rest of the year. After this year it would need to be higher for me to continue doing this fulltime. Though I could see myself working parttime somewhere to get healthcare, because these ACA plans are just flipping crazy costly. EDIT - good grief how do I break up paragraphs here? I hit enter and it ends the message as if I clicked reply. I do plan on getting more work done on Inevitable Dance, but I'm currently focusing on what I have for EA and the editing time for that one is longer. My editor has drastically improved the quality of that story and I consider it my best work, but sometimes they take a bit due to their other obligations to get those edits back so it prevents the type of flow where I can release multiple chapters in quick succession. Defense of the Inner Sphere I kind of just lost some of my creative juices a tad, but like I had previously done with that story, I do intend to return to it!

Aerandria

I should clarify I'm not asking you to change focus or anything at all- just throwing it out there if you were trying to track where your readers' interests lay. As far as Dance goes, I'm very happy to wait for you to get to it when you get to it.

Mark

Pooooooooog new halo chapi incoming

Perf

I'm here because I want to show appreciation for all the Tanya stories you've written. Defence is my current favorite though.

Failninjaninja

Thanks you've been a day 1 OG, and have given some great advice!

Jason Anderson

Yeah I think you need to get over the nice friendly guy attitude and move on to corporate sell-out. /s (I mean this both jokingly and not). One of the first thing any entrepreneur is told is to not give away your work for free. Patreon is now your work or your business, and writing is the means you use to go about that business. Giving away your effort for free might make you feel better, but we live in a society that runs on money. If you had paid off property, vehicles, enough food for years, then we I wouldn't even bother with these suggestions. But from some previous posts, I don't think you are rich. I can also tell you I don't think a single reader would abandon you or be angry at you if you added a few Early Access chapters to your existing stories. You basically have a monopoly on high-quality consistent Tanya content. Of course there are other authors, but none as consistent or good. I believe "Paywall" is the wrong terminology too, makes it seem like it will never be available for free. That's why I'm suggesting only 2 chapters, and even if those stories go on Hiatus, you still release those Patreon chapters to the public after a month. At the end of the day, my only goal is more Failninja content. I don't even particularly care what you write, as long as you are writing. And financial security seems to be the best way to go about this. Do whatever makes you happiest while making sure you and your loved ones are financially supported. We live in a very questionable and unstable financial society at the moment.

MiaPia321 .

Can you resume Tanya sedai?

Failninjaninja

I one day plan to, but I'm not being pulled toward that story creatively right now

MiaPia321 .

Ever considered trying a crack at disco elysium?

Failninjaninja

Haven't played it yet, and after watching some of the gameplay its probably not my cup of tea

Ddutchman

I’m just here to support I prefer reading on space battles lol loving all fics

MiaPia321 .

You misunderstand, maybe a setting where like in disco elysium, Tanya’s skills talk to her and her success at actions is based upon how you roll a pair of dice before writing the chapter

Mintcakes

A Young Warg's Game of Thrones is like the polished successor of A Young Girl's Game of Thrones. A Young Woman's Defense of the Inner Sphere and Inevitable Dance of the Dragons focus more on action and drama respectively. It's interesting to have many genres with a similar but not identical main character to compare the stories.

Gustav

On the contray I think you ought to consider that most people who are here are here because we loved the stories you had written before you started the patreon, and I suspect those would still rank the highest if you did a poll (there's both a survivorship bias and the fact that they are further along pointing in that direction). But since you have to focus on the early access stories to monetize the patreon those stories now receive less output! So you are letting your paying readers down instead of your non-paying readers.

Momonga

Seeing some conversation about how you should run the patreon and just wanted to chime in with my two cents, which can be taken of left freely, and advise against pay walling your existing stories. I think given the massive growth since the couple hundred bucks it was when I started adding to the tip jar it’s clear that this thing is WORKING. And as the old saying goes ‘if it ain’t broke…’ I don’t think it would be a disaster or anything if you were to change your mind down the line. Perhaps by posting unedited drafts of chapters here and saving the polished releases for your forums and outlets. But I think you have done a tremendous job building up good will in multiple fandoms and are seeing that pay off in success. The patreon is still new and still growing with the staggered release approach and I would give it more time. This is a niche field to find lasting success in but I strongly believe that you have the perfect foundation to do it. Lastly, just wanted to say one more time that Tanya in Star Wars (any era but especially Knights of the Old Republic because I think her being Revan, accidentally becoming a military dictator and then getting mind wiped by the Jedi just to do it all over again sounds amazing) would probably get eyeballs.

Robert Hinshaw

Me too. I adore the Wheel of Time, Dance of Dragons, and Game of Thrones. Warg is growing on me, but the three mentioned are tight, but also different enough to be interesting.

Luminant

I will say one of the best fanfictions I've ever read is The Fury of a Shattered Mirror on AO3. Even if you don't plan to play the game, the system lends itself to a uniquely interesting style for fanfiction. You might want to take a look at a chapter or two of that fic and consider if you think you could write something good with that kind of system. If the answer is yes, I'd say it's worth a try.

Wiggy

Amnesiac Tanya would be... interesting. How would she act without the weight and experience of her first two lives is an interesting question.

Adam

As someone who generally dislikes the concept of early access chapters I believe the only way to do it well is if the pace of EA chapters is faster than free chapters. If the pace of new chapters is once a month for both payed and free, then if you pay for EA then you’re still stuck waiting a month for each chapter, but you’re essentially held hostage because if you stop paying you need to wait two months for a new chapter. This then leads to the problem of transitioning previously free stories to payed. It’s one thing if you’re able to increase your writing pace so payed members get more chapters in the same timeframe, but if you need to slow down free releases to entice subscriptions that can spurn your existing reader base. And I think just saying “write more chapters” isn’t very practical when you have so many stories and your chapters generally have longer word counts than a lot of others. Maintaining your current stories and then cranking out even more chapters of Inevitable Dance every month seems difficult to maintain, especially the quality. And especially if you start focusing on payed early chapters right when the Dance finally starts kicking off it could be off putting to some readers. It might be good short term, but as you said it may not be the best decision long term

Zakalwe

If I were to give a breakdown for why I am a supporter I would say 70% Defence of the Inner Sphere, 10% Elaena, 10% Tanya Sedai and 10% Halo. Whilst I do read ahead, I would have supported you even if it weren't available.