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Very Important Announcement! - Change of pace of work.
🕑 Added 2025-03-18 14:31:34 +0000 UTCHello everyone, important announcement here! Well, more than an announcement, it's a poll for YOU, a very important person for me, because you fans are what keeps me going. Now, this poll is to see what everyone thinks about a change that I want to make regarding how much I work each month and the content that I can make each month, here is some information regarding this matter.
A change in the pace of work:
Currently, I try to make two stories each month, one of which is the main story, and then I make a monthly exclusive story. I always try to make both stories to give everyone the content they're expecting from me, but lately, I've been having trouble with meeting this "quota" of two stories each month.
Why is it a problem to make two stories each month?
If you're a "veteran" fan and you've been reading my stories from the very beginning (You're awesome), you probably saw an incremental increase in the quality of these stories: the story plot, the outfits, the scenes and even the photoshop phase. I have been getting better and better on each one of these phases, and with every increase in quality, it also means more time to spend on each story to make it look and feel better than the one before this one. If you're not convinced about this, check the first episode of Velzea's Invasion and then check the final episode, or the first episode of TLITD, the quality is so much higher.
Okay, again, what is this change you're talking about?
First of all, in case you didn't know, ever since I started doing two stories a month, I work every day of the week. Yup, weekends too, and I can't keep up with working every day. In order to prevent further burnout/exhaustion of work and also give me weekends free to rest and recover, I want to slow down a bit and I decided that it would be best if I made ONE story each month. A single story, since I wouldn't have to worry about thinking that after this story, I would need to make the monthly story, which is usually done in one week! And that's a lot of stress! I want to try to reduce the stress and anxiety levels.
So, only one story each month, what about the supporters?
This is where everyone's voting and opinion comes in. I made promises in the past of delivering monthly exclusives, but as you can see, last year I couldn't deliver every month, and a lot of you supporters and fans didn't mind me skipping one or two months of exclusives (which is so awesome coming from you fans). I am thinking that if I am making this change permanently, instead of monthly exclusives, I will release the "special" version to the middle tier (usually 5€/500¥) a month after the story has been released. This way, people will still have an incentive to support me in that tier. The highest tier will still get the "special" version when the story is pre-released and the middle tier will get the censored version, that won't change.
Cool! Better stories! What does this mean?
On this DarkFlame Anthology - Leena Origin story, it's an example of what I can do with more time to work with, and without the thought of having to make another story: I have made a lot of the background extras as actual characters and I have also made a lot of secondary characters as actual characters and not "blue transparent people". This will make stories feel better, look more natural, and most important of all, more enjoyable.
This poll you've posted, what does it do?
It will show me what YOU, the fan, and/or supporters think about this change. Less stories, but better quality. Less hours of work, but also less stress. Please tell me what you think, it's a lot more important than you think!
Additionally, with this change of pace I can focus more in important stories that have been stuck and delayed for some time, those being That Time I Became a Succubus and Lyra's Chronicles. I should also note that the "Make Your Own Story" is an exception to this change of pace of 1 story per month.
Thank you so much for reading this wall of text, but as an artist, it warms my heart to see fans giving their opinion and also letting them know that I read their opinion! Without further ado, here's the link to the poll for you to comment on:
https://forms.gle/qGP5bXk2Y1Zgnc8p8
Comments
DarkFlame
Next episode will be in 3 months. Like it has always been
Ttttttt
Then what will happen to the story of the Light in the Dark?
LexiaRCR
Please take some rest, your stories are amazing, I need to see more ^^ So yeah 1 story per month is more then enough
luckyhusky
agree make 1 story per months. but also making the other story that will not release maybe 2-3 months later. like having stock of story. so when probably youre getting tired that months or something special then you released that. make reader happy and make you more easy because having unrelease story and giving you more rest time? or just do what ever as long you dont stop for a year and gone
Ammar Azlan
If you need rest just do one, life is hard enough
ichbendunicht
If it's good for your health, you should do one story per month! It's also worth considering doing the second story every 2-3 months!:P
