Saturday Devlog (August 28)

Hi everyone! Happy Saturday, hope you're all staying safe and healthy.

There's a couple of announcements I'd like to make for this month, especially with regard to the upcoming update. There's quite a few things to talk about, but the TL;DR is basically this:

1. Patreon billing will be paused for the month of September, to be resumed in October after another demo update has been posted.

2. This upcoming update will be converted into a bonus update, focused entirely on getting the pre-resurrection arc finalized. With the new additions to the Silcur arc, this update's wordcount should be just shy of 15k words. All other progress will be rolled over to next month's update.

3. All other Patreon content for September will progress as usual! October will be focused on nothing but the update (focused on the long-overdue plot progression for the post-resurrection arc).

The reasons for these changes are as follows:

While I was able to comfortably reach the wordcount goal this month, story-wise it did not quite take AMR to the point where I had intended it to be. I underestimated how long the remaining parts of the Silcur arc would be, and this prevented me from putting in a sufficient amount of content in the post-resurrection arc.

As a result, posting the update as is would have left the story at a strange cutoff point. Rather than forcing the plot forward (and likely sacrificing quality in the process), I made the call to stop writing the post-resurrection content and instead focus on various pre-resurrection improvements I've long been meaning to get around to.

Of course, this does mean that the update will fall short of AMR's regular update length of 20-30k words! This is why billing for September will be suspended, as I felt the smaller update did not warrant a charge for this month. Instead, this will be reserved for the September update, which should be significantly longer than August's.

After the August update has been posted, the only thing left on my to-do list will be the Arcadia day-off scene--although that's still a bulky task in itself, as there's still four more scenes to write in that segment! Other than that, however, I'll be able to devote my focus solely on plot progression content, which should make for meatier updates from here on forward.

Lastly, Patreon bonus content are still on schedule to be posted this month! I'll be posting the first of these--a portrait of Aunt Bess--right after this update goes up.

As always, thank you very much for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!