Some Announcements (TLDR Book of Venus & Family Coins continue)

A couple announcements:

First, we're at $100 a month, so I'll start the weekly spotlights series this week on Patreon. In the spotlight series, I'll talk about and review my own favorite pieces of content across the internet. Fingers crossed I can get that off the ground by the end of THIS week.

Second, I've figured that I really do like writing quest style stuff on the internet. Some of you may have noticed I've made a brief exploratory foray into CHYOA writing, in which I found it's just much easier for me to produce high wordcount while having fun than compared to more serious short story work.  

While I still want to continue developing my independent smut fiction work through short stories, it requires me using my "work" brain to do so. Despite being a skeleton in a spacesuit, I too work a job to pay the bills.   After a day of work (or even messing around instead of working), I like to kick up my feet and have a good time on sites like fiction.live and CHYOA. Online, I interact instantly with energetic fans, not necessarily put my nose to the grindstone to police beta and delta drafts of exploratory pieces.

For whatever reason writing chapters in the former is invigorating, writing even a paragraph in the latter is draining.  So, efforts to develop short stories are now hold so I can focus entirely on questing.

I'll still work on these stories on and off, but due to IRL constraints, I think we'll all be better served if I focus 100% of my free energy into more and longer lives. If we do get to a point where I have more free time, or we get to a point where I can put more hours into writing and less hours into space jobs (refer to prior listed support goals), I'll pick the short story writing concept back up and run with it

So for the third "soft" announcement, I'll be picking up Book of Venus again sometime in the next week or two, while continuing to run Orpheus Initiative.   

Book of Venus is a corruption story focused on a boy who happens onto a magic book, written under an old alt of mine (c0de). It features a bunch of themes, but the main reason I've picked this one  is that I can write scenes for it at will outside of "typical" lives. It's a lower interaction quest where people make plans, and we see how those plans play out over a long period of time (a year, half a year, or a matter of months)

Finally, for Family Coins fans, I'm currently looking into getting back up to speed with the quest so I can run an occasional live (maybe once a week?) till we get it finished.

Anyway, thanks to all those who've read a story, joined a live, or participated in the Patreon. Your support is a big morale boost that helps keep me questing. With that business concluded, I'll see you at the next timer.