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Poll about the future of my Patreon! Participation is VERY important!

  • I think this is a great idea since it will help ensure quality! 21
  • It's fine with me as long as I still like at least one of the serials, I already don't read all 4 a month 8
  • I would stay a patron, but I like reading four monthly updates 0
  • I'm not sure if I like the sound of this and would be questioning my patronage 0
  • I would unsub from your Patreon if you cut down to three monthly releases 1
  • Other (comment please!) 0
  • 2022-04-27
  • 30 votes
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edit: I am touched by the poll results here.  It means so much to me that all of the 16 votes have been in favor of the new, proposed schedule.  I never want to make drastic changes without all of your input and I am now feeling even more pumped and motivated to give you all great content!  I will make sure patrons know well in advance of this type of change so you will have plenty of time to make a decision before a new billing cycle.

Please participate if you can; this post is regarding the future of my Patreon and how my content will be released.Basically, after some reflection and speaking with some top Patrons, I feel that I might be stretching myself very thin.  I am releasing four different serials right now; each requires a lot of thought and effort to ensure they are narratively sound, lack plot holes/inconsistencies, etc.Beyond this, I am generally releasing 3k+ words a week; oftentimes over 4k words.  On top of my day job, it basically takes all of my time just to ensure I can just barely stay on top of my weekly release schedule.

Due to this, I often don't get as much time as I would like for editing old and current chapters, developing narratives, planning out the long serials, etc.I would like to change my release schedule and cut it down to three chapters a month; this would mean I get one break week a month that I can devote to making sure the other three monthly updates are up to par.  It is also likely I could keep the monthly serials to a higher word count per chapter on average, leading to more content per chapter on that front.  When some serials end, I would also like to have one monthly story slot reserved for one-shots and sequences.  Not having to worry about maintaining a long narrative for one of three monthly stories would free up a lot of time in itself.  Onto the question!~~~~~How would you feel, if, sometime in the future, I switched to the following four-week cycle for content releases?Week 1 = Long serial chapter updateWeek 2 = Break for editing/planningWeek 3 = Long serial chapter updateWeek 4 = A sexy TF short story or sequence along with more editing/planning of serialsWeek 5 starts a repeat of the cycle~~~~~

I personally feel like this would be easier on me and still very fair.  I know the vast majority of readers are only here for one or two stories, to begin with.  

Comments

TSlothrop

For me, personally, I’m here for the cow TF. So if you were to do this, I’d be more into the idea if you switched up the schedule so that Bloodbarn and The Belle Tolls aren’t right after each other, so there aren’t months where I’m paying for content I don’t want.

Rory Rouses

Thank you! I hadn't even considered the issue of having two cow TF stories back to back. I will make sure to take this factor into heavy consideration when re-organizing my schedule.

Tutty The Fruity (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-20 23:00 If you think it's manageable go for it
2022-04-27 18:46

Rory Rouses

Thank you for your support! I'm getting to a point where quality is more and more important to me. I expect more out of myself (writing quality-wise) than I used to and definitely think I could manage it this way!