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.