Two small announcements (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

So two small updates.  You may have noticed I've only been posting every other day for the past couple weeks, whereas previously I was posting more often than that by a good bit.  I want to apologize for that.  The first announcement is that I think the quality and quantity of my writing is suffering from the occasional but pretty brutal negative feedback on Royal Road (especially over the past few chapters when people on RR thought Athela died permanently?), and for a couple weeks I may stop posting there entirely just for a mental health break.  I know the author of Primal Hunter once posted about this subject, where he went into a depression because of the feedback he got, and I didn't think I'd experience it for myself - but my skin isn't as thick as I once thought it was.

I've noticed that writing has become more of a chore, specifically when negative feedback hits or someone slams me with a 0.5, and the immense amount of joy I used to get from my writing has dwindled because of it.  I'll continue to post here as usual, and the goal is to rediscover the fun I had while doing it - hopefully posting more as well should that happen.  When you're more invested in your writing you do a better job, and that being said I've noticed the times where I have these moods I post worse chapters on Patreon by a significant margin.  Sometimes I feel like the writing gets lazy because I feel like 'what's the point if they hate it' lol.  Hopefully that fixes itself and hopefully I can rediscover the love I had for doing this, as I don't have the amount of negativity here as I do on RR, and hopefully that love of writing comes back sooner rather than later with the RR break.

Second announcement is (other than status page chapters which I have already promised to do), If there are any other areas of the story or aspects of the story you'd like to see more of then let me know.  If it's Lahn's family, Allie's perspective, Riven's romance, a lack of Riven's romance, Chalgathi stuff, etc, let me know what you think are the best and I can focus on those more.  Thanks in advance and hope you are all doing well :)