Taking a Quick Break/Venting/Good News Too (Patreon)

Hey guys, just an update on why the next chapter is taking a while. This week has seen my antidepressant withdrawal headaches get quite bad and I kind of hit a breaking point where I fought myself to realize this wasn’t worth it. I’m taking them again at a lower dose and while I still have the headaches/lethargy they’re much less intense and it should go away after I’m readjusted but today it’s just making me really really tired. I was stupid for trying to do this cold turkey and in the future I’ll do it the proper way and sloooooooowly taper off of them- but not for a long ass time as I’d much rather be stable and working on my work again like before.

What happened was I quite late December and for a while it seemed fine but then the last two months have just been career distractingly bad, but I kept thinking I could get through it and that it would get better and it just became this entire sunk cost fallacy thing. I already made it this far, just a little longer and it will go away, but it never really did and I forced myself to just fucking get over it.

So I’m just kinda gonna lay around today or however long I need to as my brain readjusts. I’m already feeling a big difference, the headaches are clearing up and my thoughts aren’t as jumbled, will just need some more time.

It’s not all bad news, though. The other reason I haven’t done much writing these last few days is that the audiobook for volume 1 has been fully recorded and I’ve been proofing it myself in addition to the publisher’s team. As you guys know how long vol 1 is, it’s taking me and my gf a while. On 34 out of 60 currently.

The good news is that I can’t praise the adaptation highly enough. Both narrators are phenomenal and almost every apprehension I had was unfounded. I can’t say anything about when it’s getting released yet as it’s undecided but when it does you can rest assured knowing it has my full seal of quality.