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Hello All (Patreon)

Published:
2022-01-08 09:18:11
Imported:
2022-02

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There's no easy way to say this, other than I'm sorry for screwing everybody over.


As some of you might have seen, I've once again started posting stuff on RoyalRoad as in days of old. As I said over there, I'm going through my old work and trying to get a sense of where I left off in the story.


I'll also be overhauling my Patreon Page, including the Tiers. I'm not sure exactly how that's going to work yet, but I do know I'll be deleting a lot of the oldest free posts and just direct people to RoyalRoad.


I want to have a new chapter out in a couple of weeks but that requires I go through thirty-odd so chapters over the next few days.


I'll do my best to earn some of your trust back.


Thank you, and have a good night.


Comments

BritishBob

Welcome back. Nice to see you again.

Anonymous

No worries! Welcome back!

Anonymous

Welcome Back, Hope your doing better. Take your time with chapters, still here cuz willing to wait for a quality story :)

Chris M

Nice to see you back! Do what you need to :)

White Neko Knight

Everyone will have a different reaction to you coming back. I won't say that you're completely blameless, you are running a subscription service after all, but you also gave fair warning. Do your best to ignore those who go out of their way to hurt and insult you, for they will be here. For myself, I understand the need to take a break and get your head back in the game. Do your best to take care of your mental health and thank you for coming back. Most importantly, welcome back. I look forward to reading you work once again.

Pltergeist

welcome back! :)

Anonymous

Burnout is a real thing and it happens to the best of us. Take care of yourself. Welcome back! PS: Just realized I now get to go reread the whole thing, yay!

Stephen Pearson

Well hey, welcome back! I wouldn't worry too much about it, those still here are those who stuck around for over half a year, anyone stressing over it is long gone. I'm just happy that you're doing better and picking the story back up!

Anonymous

Welcome back. I hope you get a better feel for where you want the story to go.

Hunendora

Taking care of yourself is important, never let anyone anyone tell you otherwise.. Welcome back, I'm glad to see you again.

Anonymous

Welcome back and thank you for at least trying to further the story. I'm really looking forward to it!

Anonymous

Like Georgi said, burnout is a real thing. Your mental health is more important than the story. If you pick it back up, that's great, but if magic smithing is no longer the story for you to write, then that's okay too. The patronage is to support you as a person, not the story itself.

Aclys

What the others said. I for one hardly think you had burnout cause you wanted to, it happens. Long as you get back up and actually feel good about trying again, I for one want to be here to read the stuff you write. Welcome back :)

Anonymous

Reading online, I’ve read so many stories that abruptly end, usually there isn’t an ending, people expect themselves to continue then they just don’t. A lot of this is usually in the newer stories, but it happens to stories that aren’t new too, like with you and this story. And sometimes there’s one last, further away from the rest as if they tried to make themselves. Burnout and life happen, take care of yourself, make sure to plan a bit better. We’ve waited a long time, some of us are still subscribed for a reason, we like this story enough to, don’t try to just start churning out chapters without a thought. If you are really going to continue this, take care of yourself, people will accept breaks from you, especially when you tell us and to keep the story going, just communicate more and take the breaks when you need to. And welcome back.

David Brims

Yeah. Continue if you can. And if you can't, so be it. While we hope you continue, I suspect those remaining would all support you in either decision or we wouldn't still be here.

Michael Vonica

Nice to see this story back. I'm not sure this is the best place for it, but I wanted to post some suggestions that I thought might be able to help the story going forward. I don't know about everyone else, but when I read this story a while back, I felt like it lacked a certain sense of direction near the end. Like Aaliyah's goals were to become a better blacksmith, become stronger, and take care of her family and friends. But there wasn't ever really a clear direction on how that would be achieved, or what achieving it would look like. Aaliyah simply took what she had and what she could find around her, and used them to the best of her ability. She never took the time to think 'how can I best prevent my family from coming to harm' or 'what direction do I want to take my skills in'. I think that if you want to have an easier time planning this story, you probably want to have a clear picture on how you want it to play out. What should Aaliyah's ideals be? How should they present themselves through her actions? What themes should the story try to cover? You very well could already have ideas in mind for all of this, in which case, I look forward to the results, but if not, I'll just post some ideas down below that might help. First, Aaliyah's family. It's been a while since I read the story, but if I'm correct, then Aaliyah mostly went about protecting them by making herself stronger and preparing the village for attacks. Generally, this is a terrible solution for protecting her family. The first real monster that shows up would instantly crush her and her village. And two have already shown up. The soul monster and Pacore. Who knows what else could come knocking at her door. If Aaliyah really wants to protect her people, she needs support. Few things can stand up to the weight of a nation. Her hand has already been forced by Pacore in this instance, but I think she should take that as a wake up call towards being more proactive in the future towards gaining her own base of support to protect her interests. Even if she has to sacrifice her freedom and take on responsibility for it. She has to at least recognize the necessity and weigh the costs. Now, onto her career as a blacksmith. I'm a little fearful on this one, because she seems to be investing more effort into fighting skills, and her new soul magic will give her an incredible advantage over many unprepared opponents, making her reliance on blacksmithing less important. I'd personally prefer to see her stick to a more focused blacksmithing route. But as far as her current direction as a blacksmith, I can kind of see the obvious route being her increasing her skills more as time goes on, making greater magical tools and weapons with better materials that she can now afford or hunt down herself, and selling these creations to the super rich and powerful, who are the only people who can actually afford or use them, and gifting some things to the people she likes and cares about. Also, making her own crazy powerful equipment. It's not a bad direction to take things, and other stories have managed to pull off similar styles just fine, but I personally have a bit of a problem with it. When a character focuses on pushing their limits to the extreme like this, they only really ever affect a very small amount of people. Themselves, who are the main beneficiary of their efforts, their small circle of allies, who get the runoff, and the people on top, who, as time goes on, end up being the only people who can even deal with the character. And that's fine for a character who recognizes that they are ignoring the greater public for their own interests. But Aaliyah seems to be more along the lines of someone with a modern perspective, who believes in showing compassion for the general public and working to improve everyone's living conditions and basic human rights. So, after she leaves her village, if she looks around the world and sees all of the terrible things going on, like starvation, oppression by the strong, danger from the wilds, corruption in the government, and a dozen other things, and chooses to ignore it, I'd find that a bit off. If you do choose to go down the route of Aaliyah focusing on making the world a better place as best she can, there's plenty of interesting routes that the story will lend itself towards. To improve the living conditions of the public, that means giving the public more opportunities to improve their own lives, and pushing leaders for more equality. In real life, this happened as a result of things like industrialization, which provided people with well paying jobs and also created tools that allowed people to improve their own lives. Better methods of transportation, farming, self defense, etc. Aaliyah could be in an ideal place to implement such things, once she becomes a top level blacksmith, although her focus might be more on skills and magic than regular industry. Things like opening a school to better train common people and give them skills, possibly even magic skills, to allow them to take on more valuable work. Assisted by her use of soul magic, maybe. Creating tools to assist in the building of infrastructure like roads or waterways, to help transportation and irrigation. Maybe even making farming tools and machines, if possible. The development of processes for mass production of tools, to decrease costs, and increase availability and benefit from their use. Maybe even using production line methods. And this route doesn't exclude Aaliyah from making crazy powerful tools and weapons, or exploring the world in her free time, either. Aaliyah could even end up developing something like the magical equivalent of a gun, or a literal gun, and creating a method of mass production for it. It would certainly help increase public safety. And in a country that defines importance off of personal power, creating weapons en masse that would allow regular people to compete against warriors who have spent decades training would grind against a lot of powerful people. Which would allow for some conflict. Point is, I think it's an interesting direction to explore. It would also be fun to see Aaliyah focus less on the creation of super powerful weapons, and more on mass creation of regular powerful weapons. There are already plenty of stories about characters with crazy advantages crushing their opposition with overwhelming force, but not too many stories about using superior numbers and tactics to overwhelm enemies. Like making an army of golems, and using soul magic, granting them access to Aaliyah's fighting skills. It would be a better approach than making Aaliyah incredible at combat, magic, and crafting, in my opinion. I'm not suggesting that Aaliyah should immediately change her character to focus on issues like the ones I labeled above. Character growth is important too, like how Aaliyah has grown to care about her family. So, during her time as Pacore's student, Aaliyah could experience and see some things that push her character in a more proactive direction. I hope that you can get some usefulness out of my suggestions. I guess they were a bit long, and I still have some other stuff that I want to say about power systems. But I'll leave it at this. Whatever you write, I'll be looking forward to it.

Anonymous

Would you mind setting this post as free? I'm stoked that you're possibly back so I've got no problem becoming a patron to see it. But I could see someone being upset if they had to subscribe to know whether you're going to post or not.

Anonymous
>>75274440

I'm glad someone can write words good, I'm fine just reading a slice of life in a fantasy setting, maybe a splash of excitement every once in a while. So I'm pretty happy as is. I do like when there are interesting crafting mechanics though. If I were to give any advice, it would be to make sure you know what you're talking about when bringing in real life science. Anytime you get close to the edge of your knowledge, back off by about 5% and let fantasy mumbo jumbo take over. I love fantasy science, but real life science mistakes is definitely a pet peave. There can be good mistakes though. Especially if the character is wrong and they fail because of it or partially fail. Then they can learn from those mistakes.

Steven Palmer

Welcome back, you were definitely missed and I'm so excited to hear your attempt to restart. I have faith you'll get back into the swing of it, it might be awkward at first but I think it will adjust or change slightly but it will be awesome.

austin kutz

Relax, you haven't screwed anyone over at all. We like your story quite a bit, but no one is so ravenous for your words that we'd blame you for taking a break

Anonymous

Welcome back. To think that you might add to the story again. Such good news. As for loss of trust: you have been generally upfront and honest with both your message and promises. Most people’s complaints were actually about things you didn’t promise. One strategy might be to have weekly posts on a fixed day for Patreon and then do bonus chapters when you are a chapter or two ahead. So you would average 1.4 posts per week which seemed a pretty sustainable pace for you. But for sure wait until you know what pace you are prepared to work at before making Patreon promises. Either way I’m happy to read at the rate you write, be it this story or a new one with pre-planning. I’m excited to see what the new year holds.

Alex C

People always have the option to cancel the Patreon, it's an open contract. Yeah you had a rough time and couldn't fulfill your end but that happens with Patreon.

Anonymous

Welcome back!! wooohooo! More magic smithing!

Darune Albane
>>75296823

Too many people demand things from others .. not admitting that life happens .. SCREW THEM you do not need those kinds

Anonymous

Woopwoop Time to start reading again. Starting at chapter 1 😁😁

Anonymous

I read hundreds of books a year, and your story was and is great. You are a good writer who obviously cares about what they write. So I subscribed even after you had already said you had real life getting in the way. It always does, and if i am being honest 2021 was literally the worst year of my life lol, so i dont blame anyone for taking time out, i certainly did :). Take care of yourself, do it for love of it, if you cant or its too hard, then take time out again .. your readers will still be here :)

Anonymous

Thank you for the update I love your story thank you for sharing it however you choose to

Anonymous

I hope your sub fee dont get to expensive. And glad you decided to continue t he story

Jon

Glad you decided to continue to the story. I really enjoy the world you created and can't wait to see what happens.

Anonymous

Glad hearing from you, that you are doing well. Relax, Take your time, don't push yourself to a pace that you aren't comfortable with to meet other people expectations, and we all will be here waiting for you.

Anonymous

Welcome back, I really enjoy your story and I'm happy for your return!

Jessy

Welcome back. Just picked up the subscription because i saw it posting on RRL again and wanted to read more. Though, you should really post if you need more time for a chapter, or want to take a break. Noone here paying will judge you if you tell us you want a break. People will be rightfully upset if you leave without saying anything. they are paying out of their own pocket for the product you are releasing here. Letting them know so they dont keep paying even when they get nothing, is common courtesy

Anonymous

happy you are back

Anonymous

Glad to see you back.

Anonymous

I’m happy to hear from you!!

Anonymous

Welcome back!

Anonymous

when will he drop new chapter

Undead Writer

YAY!! Your back!! Can’t wait for more chapters!

Anonymous

just say how long your going to disappear next time

Anonymous
>>76032581

Yeah, I hope Im wrong but it feels like he wont update after next month or so. I should have waited for new chapters before I sub again.

Alex Galaitsis

Your story is an absolute joy to read. Just keep doing what you’re doing, at a pace that is sustainable for you.

Cora

I'm new to your patreon. That's because I've read and love your story as is. I hope you continue because I think you something truly special here. But even if you don't, I'm happy I got to support you for even a month. Please continue, you and your story deserve it. But do it at your own pace. I'll be here to read it, when you've written it

Anonymous

Welcome back! Super glad to see you active in writing again. I love your work and am simply here to support you. Hope you are able to have fun getting into the swing of interacting with the fans while writing again.

Anonymous

Chapters when?

Anonymous

Looking forward to you continuing this wonderful story at whatever pace you can do.

Anonymous

I feel duped

Anonymous

I was pleasantly surprised to see these updates on Royal road. This story always spoke to me in a way that few have. Please remember that you're not writing for the money. You're not writing for the readers. You're allowing yourself to be a conduit for this incredible story to take shape. Take the time needed to do it right and ignore those other factors. Thank you.

Jessy
>>76490652

Dude said a couple of weeks. should be somewhere around the end of the month

Anonymous

I felt robbed again, never again I'll just read on rr. no follow up update no sht.

Anonymous

Alguma previsão de novos capítulos?

Anonymous

Still no updates after one month? I really love your story but I'm not paying if you dont publish anything

Anonymous

Damm this sucks. I just bought this and theres no extra chapters. I basically bought nothing. Maybe you should not allow people to buy the tiers if the offered 12+ extra chapters are not there…

Anonymous

first, I'm glad you decided to pick up the story again. I knew from RR that you would be going through all the old chapters there before writing new chapters, so I waited to resubscribe until you caught up. I am hoping you meet your goal of getting a chapter out on the 3rd.

kfir with a כ

I completely understand and thats okay. however i just subscribes to your patreon and the fact that you had almost a month to change the tiers to not include 12+ chapters and didnt do so leaves a bad taste in my mouth and i think it is dishonest.