2019 Plans - Updated June 2019 (Patreon)

Wow-ee! Can you believe it's been two years already? It's still pretty mindblowing to me!

Right, straight to business! A little 'year in review' again, and plans for the future:

Escapades
I'm thrilled that most readers were comfortable with my efforts to add some more context to W&A's little world, though I'll admit that there was a LOT of exposition that may have hurt pacing a little, so Suichi has been helping with #4's script to ensure a better balance between story and pure bondagey goodness!
Fanart Vote
The Fanart Vote pictures continued to push my comfort zone (in a good way), but I spent the entire year struggling to keep up with them.
Miscellaneous Wossy & Aeria Antics
Didn't get to do as many of these as I'd hoped, despite marking it as a goal in last year's 'plans' post. Didn't even touch the suggestion box... sheesh!

So... The concept of cutting the Fanart Vote down to one per month was brought up last year, but I stubbornly thought I could 'brute force' my way through the twice-monthly schedule. Unfortunately, instead I just got burnt out and ended up falling even further behind on Escapades AND the votes, plus feeling guilty any time I wanted to make a miscellaneous WossyAer picture to 'recharge' with. After spending most of the year running on empty, I've decided to cut the votes down to once per month starting from January 2019, as seen in the attached image. There'll still be two this month since you've all paid for November's rewards already, and it'd be a shame to ruin Christmas, so December gets two votes too. ;)

The pictured Escapades timeline is a more realistic schedule now that I have the development cycles of issues 2 and 3 to look back on. Obviously I intend to go faster than the image predicts, especially after halving the votes to free up an extra week every month - the sketches/inks/etc sections just serve as deadlines. So the final release will be ideally July, but possibly August, and if it were to look like it would be rolling over into September I'd a̶b̶s̶o̶l̶u̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶l̶e̶d̶g̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶g̶u̶y̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶t̶h̶.̶ (Edit on June 26th: Okay, it turns out that's not going to be possible.. I can't afford to skip a month's income this year. Sorry!! And the issue is currently looking like a September release, sooo... I'll do like I did for Issue 3 last year: if you pledged in August, you're entitled to a copy even if you cancel before September's charges go out. Patreon lets me see who pledged for any given month even after they've left, so I can send individual messages to the relevant people to ensure they get their copy.)

As always, thanks from the bottom of my heart for your support! I don't want anyone to ever feel ripped off or forced into maintaining their pledge - if the 2019 plan doesn't gel with you, or a month goes by where I fall behind or it feels like I slacked off, please always feel free to lower your pledge, or you can pause it, or even outright cancel! It's your money, your choice - there'll be no hard feelings and you'll always be welcome back in the future!

So here's to Year 3 staying on the rails and finally giving back with the solid balance of quantity and quality that you guys deserve!! <3