Important Blog, Thoughts on Spreading Myself Thin

I wanted to make a small follow up to the thing that I posted yesterday about the new short story idea I had. Also, I wanted to address concerns that I’m stretching myself thin. In a way it’s true, and my decision-making has been a little all over the place lately but I’d like to explain where it’s coming from.

It’s mostly just stress from money and general bad moods. I haven’t been having a good couple of months. My sleeping has been bad, moods have been swinging, and I’m not getting nearly as much done as I want to as a result.

As for the money, it’s just continual stress from only making incremental improvements to my bottom line. I’m quite poor. I need to make more to support my bigger stories- specifically Coye. Volume 6 made like $600 in its first month, but that’s also not entirely true as the release led to another $1k in people reading 1-5. That’s great. It was my best month ever. But then I had a really shitty month with barely $600 royalties in total, and the way Amazon works is I get my royalties for any given month 60 days after the month… so I don’t get the huge $1500 until the end of *this* month and have been living off of a really bad $500 for this whole month right now, on top of my disability.

And then the month after that I’ll get the $600, so… yeah, frustrating. Even more so when I have friends in the haremlit scene who get several thousand dollars right off the bat when they release something.

I’ve even resorted to un-retiring from character design commissions, which I’m proud of getting over myself and doing. These have not taken much time away from my writing as I’ve been doing them at times I wouldn’t be writing anyway, so no worries there.

Overall, I want things to be more stable.

I want to make big stories- specifically Coye- but I need a bigger revenue stream to fund the months it takes to do bigger books like that. I can’t keep spending 2-3 months on a book only for my standard of living to *slightly* increase with each one. I need a bigger library on Amazon that people can read and that will direct to all my other work.

In my attempts to do so, I’ve made some poor decisions the last few months. Starting two new series back to back is definitely a big order, but I’ve been keeping up with them pretty well I think. We’re 7 out of 15ish chapters into WGL 1 and 4/16 into BM with 5 on the way. The thing is, they haven’t been going as fast as the draft writers planned. Not their faults! I’m not throwing shade at them, so please don’t think that’s what I meant. I’m just saying I’ve proven I can handle both so far and that I have a bit more time on my hands.

Even though I’ve been keeping up really well with the two series, I do think the way I handled it all was very poor. I should’ve done it slower and not stressed so much about funding references for the characters. I get overexcited with my ideas, and I want to see them come to life as soon as possible. It’s a fault of mine that I’m aware of and will work to be more conscious of.

What I want to do is put Coye on the back burner for the foreseeable future. We left off on a good spot. Coye is finally with Dorothy and all is well. I want to continue working on the two new series since half of the work is being done for me, and I want to start making the short stories I was talking about yesterday. Novellas limited to 4 chapters each allowing for very frequent releases.

These won’t be as super serious as my main stories and won’t be super heavily edited, allowing me to do them faster. I plan on just doing an outline and then the chapter, no rough draft chapter. Instead I’ll just edit it and rewrite things when I’m going through it on grammarly. Skipping/merging a step would speed things up and I can probably get away with it since these will be shorter, I think.

I also won’t be rushing to get reference pics made of the characters from this series, easing the burden. If it’s popular then we’ll see to it eventually.

All in all, the more releases I do, the better my passive income will become and then I can work on whatever I want- again, specifically Coye. Selling a femdom series starring a cute twink to a haremlit audience is hard, and I don’t want to compromise on my tastes. Coye is for me and no one else at the end of the day, but I need to bolster my career to do more comfortably.

I’m super hard on myself for wanting to take a break from Coye because it really is my favorite story I’ve done/am doing. It doesn’t help that I dropped my old comic and RotGM when they weren’t working out in the past, and I’m afraid people will think that’s what’s happening again when it really isn’t.

The reality is I shouldn’t be afraid of doing so. I pumped out 6 Coye books in a little over a year. Real, published authors don’t even put out one book a year, sometimes. There should be no guilt on my part for wanting to let it rest for a while, during which time I will still be actively directing people to read Coye, still promoting it, and still buying art for it.

If you read this all the way through I hope you have a better understanding of my intentions and thoughts. Please let me know what you think.