September Update (Patreon)
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Hey everyone! It's been a crazy month. Ever since I started making my series of advice videos, the channel has been blowing up. I've been pulling in up to a thousand new subscribers per week, and there's no signs of it slowing down. If things continue this way, I project the channel hitting 50,000 subscribers by Christmas, which is incredible.
My goal is to keep this up with a new advice video every week, ideally on Wednesdays, with a new review video on Mondays. I don't want the advice videos to get in the way of showing off new OSR books, which has always been the meat and potatoes of the channel. Besides, reviewing a lot of books allows me to put the advice in context and to point to examples that do some OSR things particularly well.
However, at the same time that this is happening the schools are reopening. I'm a 5th grade teacher, as many of you know, and the best way to describe the current state of my day job is "everything on fire." The combination of the disaster of teaching classes online and in person simultaneously (while being masked and without the proper tech), the sudden understaffing of the school as my colleagues quit (two in the last week alone), the cutting of any bonuses (on top of the extremely low salaries) and the 115 degree heat of Phoenix are all hitting at once.
I'm holding up okay (and I'll be honest, a lot of that is thanks to you and the stability that Patreon brings) but I'm not sure how regular the releases will be for the next few weeks. Besides the school element, there's also the writing projects that are bubbling away in the background (Glatisant, Willowby Hall, Maze Knights, and other secret projects), all of which require even more attention. I'm going to try to stick to my schedule if possible, but there might be weeks where the number of videos drops just to maintain sanity until the school situation stabilizes.
It's frustrating that the day job is interfering just as the channel is hitting a surge, but I'm overall pretty confident that things are just going to get better and better for the channel once I'm over this hump. Thanks so much for all your support as always, and make sure to check out the Discord community if you haven't already!