2025 Review (Patreon)

Happy New Year's!

2025 was rough. Not just for me, but for everyone.

I increased prices of tiers almost a year ago, and that led to a chunk of patrons leaving (understandable). But most stuck around and I'm making a little more money than before. Still not enough to keep this Patreon running indefinitely, but I'm in the clear to keep it going for a while yet. You can always check out what I'm earning at https://www.patreon.com/c/aninovu/about .

I recently started pursuing other projects in my free time to try and make some money on the side. That means my chapter output dropped a bit from the usual 10 day cycle (outside of random hiccups) to more like 10.5 days. Not what I want but a necessary evil.

AI. AI has really become a problem for the world for a host of reasons. For me, AI was just a neat, fun way to show patrons some visuals about the stuff that I write. All my writing is done without AI, so I never felt particularly guilty about it. But the AI train is running everyone over right now, so I'm torn about using it again. If I do, always remember anything I make with AI is for fun and I don't claim ownership of any of it.

I took a few days off from writing during December for the holidays, and then I got a nasty skin infection. Yeah, not happy about that. I immediately went to the doc and got on antibiotics, but it did take the wind out of my sails a bit and costed me a few more days. In 3-4 weeks I'll be going in for surgery to fix the problem permanently, and I may lose a couple days of work then, too. We'll see. Sorry for the delay, but next PoH will come out Jan 7th, and we'll have to wait and see if the surgery affects my writing output.

The Pleasures of Hell story continues, and I think Part 5 is where the story will really pick up.

Let me know what's on your mind.