[Important] Patreon Schedule Poll
Added 2025-07-24 16:30:01 +0000 UTCAlright, here are the schedules I came up with. The one at the top is my preferred one. Why ? Because it uses every day where I don't have a major, recurring engagement, which means that those days are the ones where I most likely will have the time to write a chapter if one isn't ready.
The only problem I have with it is that I don't know if it'll work with keeping up my streaks and I'm afraid of working up a backlog for patreon, which I'm not a big fan of, for multiple reasons (I completely stopped doing the whole 'lower tier for a few chapters' thing and though people keep telling me I'd get more money if I limited the Preserver tier to 10 chapters in advance and gave all the rest to Archivist, I really don't want to do that because I feel it's basically ripping you off). I've also stayed away from patreon schedules because of the expectation that no matter what, there'd be a chapter on that specific day.
Which, as you guys know, I don't do. To make it PERFECTLY clear : I have always worked on stories when I get the inspiration and the will. I basically don't DO hiatus. Those who read The Dragon Imperium are perhaps painfully aware of that given my occasional chapter for that story. So this schedule would be more to regulate my posting so I can keep up streaks without constantly missing a couple of days every week, which before caused me to stop the streak and kind of just stop writing for a bit until I got a new one going.
I'll take the new schedule for a test drive, which might (might) mean no chapter tomorrow, and see if it works for a couple of weeks. If does, great ! If it doesn't, shame, and we'll return to the current model.
If we get a patreon backlog that goes over, say, five chapters, I'll increase the upload days. Under my preferred option, that would probably be friday, and then sunday.
As usual, this poll is informative only.
Comments
Yeah. Though at least our author isn't saying what they'll write. The chapters-per-week model incentivizes drawn out serials rather than inspired stories.
Minitel Embezzlement
2025-07-26 16:00:04 +0000 UTCNo vote because no "no schedule" option. Author burnout due to meeting deadlines with repeated stressful real life events is bad. Letting author post whenever they damned well feel like it is better and avoids burnout, at least because of the writing part.
PickledTink
2025-07-25 05:00:02 +0000 UTCi lprefer whatever causes less friction, and reduces author stress
John
2025-07-25 02:09:17 +0000 UTC