Dragon_Jak
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Major announcement
🕑 Added 2024-01-15 03:16:20 +0000 UTCHello everyone.
I've been making CYOAs for almost six years now. Five and a half, if you want to be pedantic. And for three of those, I have been a consistent uploader. Once a month, or once a fortnight. It has been a great pleasure to create for you all, to have amassed a following who enjoy what I create.
But this way of doing things is not something I can keep up. For a while now, I have been feeling overwhelmed. Anxious and afraid. I have been doing this work out of fear for my own well-being, fear at the idea that if I don't do this, I'll have no money to do all the things I want to do.
This has caused the work to suffer, this much is clear. I fear I've become repetitive, stale, and sloppy. I have been so afraid of losing out on these earnings that I have been pushing myself far past what is reasonable. I make porn games on the internet, I shouldn't be falling into two week long bouts of stress induced fever.
So, I have decided that I need to rid myself of this fear. Rid myself of this anxiety and allow my love for what I do to return.
Now, I want to be clear, this does not mean that I will stop making CYOAs, far from it. Instead, a few things are going to happen. The first is that I am going to branch out into other mediums. I've already tried my hand at erotic stories, and I'm also going to be doing some voice acting in the near future. I have a non-erotic book that's approaching the end of the first draft, and a second that's just getting started.
I am going to be giving myself the time to work on these other projects, without also forcing myself to make biweekly CYOAs, which is something i tried to do. At one point in 2023, I wrote 20,000 words in a week. At another, I made an entire CYOA, from starting writing to saving the final photoshop file, in just three days. It was not, and is not, sustainable.
What does this mean for patreon?
It means that I will be less consistent. I will still post, but I cannot and will not guarantee frequency. It could be a year between posts, or it could be as much as two days.
The patreon page will stay up. As always, all patrons will be the first to see my new stuff. That kind of temporary exclusivity is one of the few things I'm still happy to sell, as is the recognition. Which means that ten dollar patrons will still find their names at the end of any written work I make. Hell, you may even find yourself immortalised on the final pages of a book.
The higher tiers will be scrapped.
If you no longer wish to financially support this page, I understand. This is a radical shift, and I do not expect any of you to continue if that is not something that sits right with you.
However, for those who do wish to keep supporting me, you have my immense gratitude. I want to make things for the rest of my life, after all. So if you enjoy my artistic voice and stylings, then know that they are only going to get stronger from here.
Commissions
This is a tricky thing, because in truth, this is where most of my money comes from in this business. But I am letting it go anyway.
I may still take commissions, but they must be the kind of thing that excites and intrigues me. And pay me, obvi.
In summary
I am doing my best to sort my life out. Which means sorting out my head and my heart. And if I can't do something I love without it hurting me, I either have to change what I'm doing or stop.
I'm not stopping, just changing.
Have a lovely 2024, and I'll be back when I have something to show you.
Comments
Seanabcd
Replying late, as I usually do, but you take care of yourself.
