Back for real this time

(There is probably a lot of english mistakes this time... I mean... more than usualy)

Remember, back in June I had a Discord meeting with you about my current situation and explained why it was impossible at the time for me to work, draw, and even update here.  

In this update I said :

This didn't happen. Family stuff happened and outside of weekends I was all the time alone with Shrimpy, and it's almost impossible to work with Shrimpy around :) As a result August was exhausting and frustrating. I didn't manage much. Incidentaly, I got late on my Crowdfounding preparation schedule.
But then...

Yes. Oh yes it was my real come back to work. But in such a chaotic way my friends. And I saw nothing until it was too late.

                                                     September

I did a lot of things, prepared a full crowdfounding campaign, prepared 1 year of class for 2 different groups of students, called many printers, did maths (eew xD) planed things, started to see It'll be very short to get Rainette Chap 2 printed in time for Y/con (3rd & 4th December), then told myself it was ok for the book to only be available at the end of 2022. Still short, but more doable. And then... Then I should have put a stop to all of this. I should have taken some time to rethink everything.

I should have taken the best decision : Delay the crowdfounding campaign.

After Rainette Chapter 1 I promissed myself to never rush any book again. And this started to look a lot like a rush.

But I asked Chkao to work on my campaign video and decided some things way to fast for them to be good decisions. We had to restart a few things from 0. A waste of time.
At the end of September I already knew deep down that I did things the wrong way, I even told Chkao about it. But I was too blinded by the accumulated frustration. Students where asking me "Rainette Chapter 2 when ?", people where telling me the same for months/years on social media.

In my head all I could think of was : "It's now! I need to print the book now! I said 2022, I can't wait anymore. People are waiting!"

                                                      October

And I launched my campaign 2 weeks too late to not be in a rush.
Everything wasn't ready. I wanted everything to be. Because you can't work on things easily while in campaign, you have to prep everything before.
I also forgot to reach out for professionals to talk about my campaign... I didn't work enough on the whole "promotional" part of it... and that played a huge part in why

                                                    November

my campaign failed.


I should have delayed this campaign. I should have taken my time. September started with me exhausted from a year of baby-full-time and a year of creative frustration. I should have taken my full September to heal, come back slowly to drawing and posting content, plan things thoughtfully. Launching this campaign in 2023.

I wasted so much energy during September and October.
I wanted to be back so baddly.
I did too much for my current state and I didn't accomplish anything in the end.

Still. Still 152 people contributed to the campaign. 10 000€ were reached, only 3000 were missing.
My campaign wasn't a total waste I guess?
But it was brutal.
It took me 5 full days to feel "ok" again after it ended.

Now I'm back. Taking things slowly. Doing it right (I hope).
And you'll have updates again soon.

And thank you. Thank you for trusting me and staying all this time on Patreon to help me. Without your help things would be so difficult.

I'm back for good :)
See you very soon this time.
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