Small Update + What Kind of Chapters/Scenes Do You Most Enjoy?

Small note:

Chapters are coming soon if that's all you care about. On my Discord, I frequently post my progress when writing new chapters, so join the server if you haven't already.

Update:

I realise that I have failed to meet two goals I previously said I would do/try to do. The first being finishing the remaining owed chapters for LTW for reaching the $1,000 goal. The second being upping the weekly SIS chapter count to 3 instead of the current 2.

On top of that, I've also been consistently missing weekly deadlines. I am technically releasing 2 chapters a week per story, but I'm still pretty much always a week behind. LTW's rewrite has suffered missed chapters due to this, but that isn't on Patreon which is why it's kind of been the scapegoat.

Now, why has this been happening? Writer's block? Lack of interest in the stories? Real-life issues?

The answer? Oh, God, a million things. Lacking motivation, building desire to write a new story with a fresher premise, the constant decline of the monthly pledged amount which has led to some anxiety, dwindling engagement and so many other tiny things that just contribute to building a mountain.

I've been trying to counter this via just writing, but honestly, I find myself writing, like, 0-500 words a day at times. Like I mentioned in one of my other more recent updates, sometimes I just lose myself in reading a story or watching a youtube/steam playlist and before I know it the day's gone. Heck, just yesterday I slept for 16-hours because I just didn't want to get up and write.

How do I plan to combat this? Well, I'm not going to go on a break. I don't think that would help anything. What I feel like I really need are more likes and comments, honestly. I know that might sound kind of selfish, but even 'Thanks for the chapter.' comments help motivate me.

Of course, the ideal would be real comments that point out things you really liked, hated, or had no feeling on. It's hard to improve as a writer when pretty much your entire paying community is mute.

I understand that Patreon is fucking dogshit for reading on and I actually want to move to RR for paid content when they finish developing their author-monetisation system, but for now, a few more comments would honestly help me a lot. Half of my current desire to write comes from a select handful of users of Royal Road that comment every chapter with an actual opinion on the chapter.

I know that this may come across as whiny and unnecessary to you, but I dunno, I've been struggling with this for months and figured it'd only be fair to finally let you guys know.

Now, I am going to try to write at least 2,000-words a day as a new year's resolution even if I can't find the effort to be bothered. I want to finish LTW as soon as possible to start a new project, though I have no intentions to rush the story and there are probably about 3 more volumes until it's concluded.

I am still pretty interested in SIS and have a lot of plans for its future books, so don't worry in that regard.

If I can dig myself out of the chapter deficit I'm now in then I will once again try to finish LTW's owed chapters then hopeful start doing 3 SIS chapters per week.

If you read all of that, thanks for listening to me moaning.

Poll:

This is unrelated to the update. I've just never asked and no one's really told me. I know it's different for everyone, so I wanted to see where my readers fell on this subject in general.