MIA Explanation & the Future! (Patreon)

I want to apologize for going dark for pretty much the entirety of November.  It's usually a month that I take off to work on personal projects anyway, but I tend to be better at informing people of that fact and I also tend to be better at getting my work done before I take off.  This year, I fucked that up pretty badly.

It wasn't intentional.  I just dove into my personal project and kind of lost myself.  I've talked a couple of times earlier this year about the increasing level of burnout I've been feeling.  It was definitely related to that.  The second I had the chance to shrug off my responsibilities and focus on something for myself, something new and fun, I took it and didn't really look back until about the middle of the month, when the dread kicked in.  Cuz I still had commissions from October to finish, it was the time I usually start nagging people about things for the next month, and the project I was working on - very much enjoying - was turning out to be a hell of a lot longer than I'd anticipated and I was afraid that I'd reach the end of November with yet another unfinished project to weigh me down and a whole backlog of responsibilities I'd neglected on top of a fresh wave of new ones.

It's honestly that kinda dread, of feeling that I've gotten myself too behind to ever catch up, and that I'm just going to wind up disappointing everyone who's ever supported me that just makes me wanna disappear and try to forget all about it.  Thankfully, I recognize that doing that would be very stupid and very unfair to you all.  But I did, very much, need this month to just let myself go creatively and also to reflect on how to fix this whole mess.

So here's the deal...

December will be business as usual (assuming Patreon doesn't do something dumb again).  I'll catch up on the commissions from October and do the December batch.  CosplayBabes chapters, Paragraphs, all of it.  But January, things are going to be changing.  Because I'm going to be dropping the monthly commission tier completely.  It was a dumb decision on my part to have such a tier when I still have so many commissions on my to do list outside of Patreon.  I thought I could handle it.  They're not very long, after all, but seeing my production speed dipping drastically over the last year, I can see that it was not something I could've ever maintained and it goes against the whole point I had when I made this Patreon, which was to give me an income stream that wasn't solely reliant on a flat ratio of cents per word.

I'd hoped I could hold out until at least finishing the CosplayBabes stuff before making this change, or at least until I finished off some of the ongoing series that are being commissioned.  But I took off July of this year due to burn out and now it's only a few months later and I'm feeling it all over again.  So I need to make this change.  However...

To everyone in the Commission Tier, I want to extend the offer to put you into my non-Patreon commission queue, with a one-time $40 discount off the next chapters in your stories.  If that's not something you're interested in, I totally understand.  It will mean a bit of a wait time before I'm able to get working on your stuff again, but by removing the Commission tier from Patreon, I'll have a much easier time of cranking through the non-Patreon commissions.

As always, I appreciate your thoughts and feedback.