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RE: More Patron stories, or more discounted commissions, update
🕑 Added 2022-05-22 03:56:28 +0000 UTCEarlier in the month, I ran a poll ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-patron-or-66077352 ) to see whether people would prefer for me to continue to write 4 patron stories every 2 months or switch to 3 patron stories every 2 months in order to make room for getting through the patron commission queue more quickly.
I've decided that I'm going to make the switch to 3 patron stories every 2 months, which will come into effect on June 1st. In other words, June will have just the Character Plot story poll; and Monthly Patron Story polls will now take place on odd months of the calendar (7 for July, 9 for September, 11 for November, etc.).
A majority of Snake Bite & Sini's Breath patrons with sizable discounts for stories voted for the switch. So on top of wanting to have time to tackle those commissions, I need to adapt to the current size of the patron stories.
Initially, I only intended for each one to be about 4,000-5,000 words, but now, each patron story is going well over 7,000 words just because I haven't been compressing down the stories as much to fit that smaller threshold. So most months I'm writing 15,000+ words on patron stories when I had expected to only be writing about half of that, but I'm writing more because I think it benefits pacing and gives breathing room to the stories. A quality over quantity approach.
With one less story to worry about every other month, once the patron story backlog is clear, that will mean (since commissions are 4,000+ words on average) that I could probably start completing at least two commissions on those even months in addition to the CPS story of that month while still writing more words of patron stories than I initially planned on doing every 2 months with the 4,000 word minimum for the patron stories. (A 21,000-word average as opposed to the originally intended 16-20,000 word minimum.)
TL;DR: I'll still be writing on average over 20,000 words of patron story stuff every two months, but should be able to bang out 1-2 more of the patron queue stories every other month as well. I hope to speed things up now all across the board!
