Patreon Announcement: Request for vacation time.

Donovan Young

You should set up a week every month where you take a break. Especially during all this pandemic stuff. 👍🏿👍🏿

Original Name

It's no big deal.

Ab9999

Consider setting a week(or however long) every month where you post nothing? Worth considering even if you are treating this like a full-time job of sorts; having a planned time you could look forward to where you can just do other activities would be a good idea. You would know best the kind of schedule that works for you so I'd say just experiment a little

Addison Adams

Yeah I love your stories but don’t put your own needs behind then. Take a break if you need one.

Gremlin Jack

Feel free, breaks are important

Jonathan

I'm totally fine with you taking a break if you feel you need to.

CB-Otaku

Go for it man! : )

Cefta

go ahead, we all need a break sometimes.

Darkarma

I primarily store anything I write in Dropbox and that way whenever I make a change with Scrivener it auto saves an updates.

Ab9999

Go for it. Enjoy yourself and have some fun because it sounds like you've been cooped up too long. And back up everything, though you probably already did a while ago. Don't know how that's such a common story, losing files... Feel like Cloud and such is practically common sense nowadays lol

Alexander Murray

Aye, enjoy your week off, lord knows more than a few of us are lazing about.

Lazy Wizard

You honestly didn’t need to ask. Do what you need to do. I think most would agree when I say we’d rather you take a break now instead of burning out and dropping a story. We’ll be here, waiting (somewhat) patiently. Have a nice rest.

Go right ahead.

CallOut4

Work Harder Slave!!! Authors begging me to stop, I won't let em! Labor conditions in my box? I don't sweat em!

Zephraim Dotson

Do it, burnt out is a death knell for a story.

A person

Do it. To be honest, I was considering dropping my subscription (Paltry amount though that may be). Darth Hiki and Power Corrupts were my primary reasons to sub in the first place, and with Hiki not updating, and PC going to Skyrim, i've been less enthusiastic. That you've honestly and truthfully reached out means a lot, and I'll be keeping my sub at the current level for now. I hope you get back to a place where you enjoy your writing. Also, depending on your workflow, I highly recommend Dropbox, Google Drive, or iCloud. It's painless to set it up to be syncing automatically in the background, where you wouldn't even have to think about it except in the case of a crash, then you'll find everything you synced still safe. And for text, free tier should be enough.

Dust

Don't stress about burnout, go take your break. Just keep in mind not everything can be as perfect as we would like it to be, sometimes "good enough" will just have to do so don't feel bad about a drop in quality. Forcing through a burnout will only make it worse. Take your time, we'll be waiting.

Apokalyps117

For only a week? That's it? Hell, I probably wouldn't even have noticed without the heads up. Go for it, chief. Have fun.

Christian

It’s all good man take your time, enjoy your break

100%, dog, take a break. You're more than owed one.

TinyDeath

Dude, everybody deserves a vacation. Even if this is a labor of love, it's still basically a job. If you need time off, take the time you need. It'll only hurt productivity and quality of your work if you don't take care of yourself. You've definitely earned this. Thank you for providing us with such amazing entertainment up till now. Now go off and enjoy some free time, and we'll be happy to welcome you back when you return well rested.

I concur, it's not really necessary to ask, but I understand why you did. It's important to take breaks to avoid burnout. Make sure to take care of yourself.

Canadian Tick

You don't even need to ask, though the heads up is appreciated.

I don't think you actually need to ask. Instead I'll thank you for the heads up.

Darkarma

Yeah vacations are good so go ahead

Evilhippy

Everyone gets a vacation, if your lucky you usually get 3 to 4 a year. Just because you are self employed doesn't mean you shouldn't get one. If you need a break, then take a break. Burnout will destroy a story faster then anything else.

Nothing wrong with taking care of your mental health. Thanks for the heads up

Mkaius

Take care of yourself.

Douglas Karr

Go ahead dude, quality over quantity

cystrom

Enjoy the vacation!!! Read a book, watch a movie, do something fun!!!!

Go ahead and relax. Enjoy some quarantine gaming or something.

ArmsDealer

I'd be happy if you did so. Keeping yourself miserable isn't good for anyone.

marchex

Take a week off.

Randall Randall

Totes. Enjoy your vacation.

Tempist

I'd be fine with you taking a break.

The GrandMage

Everyone deserves some paid time off. Keeps you from burning out.

DurinDoric

I don't have a problem with it. Burn out has ruined some great stories.

Taryn Myst

Take a break. Mental health is damn important.

Silvercrystalct

Take the break, no sense in trying to force the muse.

Xegzy

Please take a break

Derek58

Go right ahead. I completely understand why you need it, and can wait a week while you relax and recharge.

Anonymous Daniel

Go ahead.

Aelem

And, you know, confinement. There's only so much to do after a while...

Aelem

Take some well deserved vacation time. Your health is the priority.

Wednesday's Jest

Enjoy your vacation.

Templar9999

Take break, have fun, you've earned it

Ahtu Nyarlathotep

Consider a cloud or personal backup sever for what you write in the future. Anything can happen, but chances of losing your writings then would be slim to none. I have my own personal NAS, for EVERYTHING.

You've been writing good shit on a consistent weekly basis since I first starting reading on QQ. All you're asking for is a week, and nobody's gonna lose their shit, especially if it keeps you from burning out.

Elia

That’s chill dude

Take a break, better to return to this with charged batteries.

Go right ahead, better to rest and recharge then to burn out

Ironforge

Take a break if you feel it is needed, as taking care of one's self is rather important after all.

Blair Shirley

Yo man, take yourself a break for a week or two and just relax as much as you can. You'v been doing amazing, and quite frankly, some of us are debating giving you a promotion.

Skia Vasillias

Yes, please take care of yourself! Don't burn out just trying to catch up and get back to where you were. Take your time and do what you want.

Darin Ehrhart

I agree with Eldar Zecore. Take the time off, we will all be better off for it. Thanks for writing and sharing.

John MacKellar

Have fun and relax my dude.

Fasd

Take care and be safe

Ciaphas Cain

I saw on QQ that you had some problems and lost your files! I'm patiently waiting for the day when Dark Hibi will be updated again. you are the author you are free to take a vacation especially if you need it, no need to justify yourself ^^ take care of yourself and see you soon

The Epitome of Eccentricity

I dunno. One of your coworkers called in and we REALLY need you to cover this shift.

Kersplode

Everybody deserves a break bro

Dre'

Treat yourself, dear author

Warden

IG, best buddy, love of my life! Take some time off. Take care of yourself. Relax, maybe learn to do a backflip or something.

Geese

Begone dear writer. Return when you're rested and ready! Seriously though, no problem take a breather.

Mioismoe

I've much rather you took a break instead of burning out and not wanting to write anymore, get some rest man.

Dakkanomics

Take care of yourself first. If you need the time off go for it.

juntodsf

Everyone deserves a week off here or there. And with how much you work you deserve it.

Take as much time as you need! We love your writing and would hate to see you burnout for good.

We understand you need your rest, go for it, take care of yourself

Take a week off man. You deserve it.

Christopher Sampson

You do you man. Take a break if you need it. None of us want you to burn out on the stories

Kabir Kumar

Hey, that's absolutely fine, dude. Take care of yourself.

Razorfloss razor

Take a break. It's no good forcing yourself and having the quality drop. We don't want a season 8 to happen and you end up hating the story. Hell dbza ended because of burnout and they didn't want to overstay their welcome

Eldar Zecore

If you want to take a week off of writing I say go for it! I would much prefer you taking the break and coming back refreshed with better quality, rather than you be stressed and steadily getting worse

Lucas Gallant

Take care of yourself and enjoy the break!