August update! (Patreon)

Hello everyone! I unfortunately have some kinda sucky news. Not bad, just dumb and stupid.

I've hit a pretty bad burnout phase. My energy and motivation have hit a pretty bad wall, and most of the time the best work I can do each day has been just a few sentences towards the projects at most.

It's been getting to me pretty hard, because I love making things, and not being able to do that even though nothing is physically stopping me has sucked. What has been really lovely is all the support I'm still getting here, without it I wouldn't be able to handle a break like this, so the fact people are still happy to support me monitarily is like, so so so so so amazing. I genuinely want to like, thank each and every one of you individually for sticking around.

As for what I'm working on still, I'll go over them here:

• I have a small pokemon game I'm working on that's meant to be a small hold-over for the burnout phase. Even small projects like these are hard for me right now, but I want to get something out for people, so I'm doing what I can.

• Deep Sky part 2 has 400+ scenes to write so that will take some time. I'm thinking that's going to just be a side project I work on every so often while I work on my current projects.

• SL4 chapter 2 is another project I have on the backburner now. I may go back to working on that after the pokemon game, and then Deep Sky part 2 will be something I do when I'm feeling energized.

• And finally, I have a commission for a friend to do which is on pause. I feel bad, but they've said it's okay for me to take my time. I do wanna thank them somehow.

One thing which is kinda fun and a little out of nowhere:
I just had my house renovated. The built-in carpets we had for 20 years were torn out and replaced with hardwood, and that meant clearing out my entire room, which also meant going through really old projects I made well before I started game making.

One thing I found was the entire printed manuscript of the first story I ever finished, called The Unova Tale, which I wrote when I was 12.

I decided to go ahead and transcribe it to digital form, and while doing so, realized there was a lot to talk about within the story, so I began annotating it, and for the past few days I compiled the entire thing within a single document, completely annotated with comments describing past details and references. It will definitely not be a story that I'd write today, but it is a fascinating document to peruse, since it's filled with very old seeds of the writer I would become today, and it also has some of the first-ever references to characters and subjects that I use today within the Outlands.

Sasha, the reshiram librarian of the Outlands, is one of those characters.

It'll need some setting up, but I think I will be posting it here as a way to get out some content for people. I hope people find it as cool as I do.

And, of course, thank you all again for your patience with me!! I love you!!