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You might have noticed there’s no schedule listed for the next chapter release. Sorry about that, but it means what you think it means. Hiatus.

For how long? Sorry again, but I don’t know. It might just be an extra week, with an erratic schedule thereafter, or it might be longer.

The truth is, I’ve been struggling for a while now, even since I dropped down to three chapters a month. That helped a bit, but it didn’t help enough, and with all the focus I split between this and my day job, there’s not much left for anything else. On my off weekends, I find myself picking between staying home to chase the seemingly unattainable dream of a backlog and actually using the time to relax and see friends and family. That’s not great.

I don’t want to be long-winded here, so I’ll just say that there are other areas of my life that need work. Having the constant, looming dread of the deadline hanging over me is damaging both my mental and physical health. I don’t want to stop writing, but I think I need to, at least for a little while.

I hope you understand, and as always, thank you for reading. Your support means so much.

-SenescentSoul

Comments

Xultanis

When my friends and I started hanging out, gaming, etcetera, we all agreed on Rule 0. Family first. No questions, no arguements. That includes you. Your health and wellbeing effect your family, even those beyond spouse/children. So. Family First.

Monomatopoeia

Ultimately, I hope most of us who are on Patreon value you and care about your wellbeing. I have had so much joy from Delve, and it has made my life positively better. I've had chapters send my mind fizzing with ideas, I've spent many a week anticipating the next chapter... And far too long theorycrafting. No matter what happens, thank you so much for Delve.

Simon Andriessen

Take all the time you need. In the end, your life, wellbeing the people around you are more important than any story.

Joy

Wish we could afford to outbid day-job-boss for first dibs on your time. Never going to be anything but supportive of you taking care of yourself, whatever that looks like. Thanks for an incredible story to date. Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not going anywhere.

Bryan D

During your break, I decided to reread the story. I continue to be impressed with your storytelling. Your world has depth and breadth; the references and whispers are amazing. Hope you are doing well.

Err

According to legend when your clarity goes high enough, you stop running away from the universe.

Some_Jawa

*Gives everyone a cookie*

Gardor

Wait did you pause patreon charging us?

SenescentSoul

Reposting answer from when this was asked in Discord: Patreon's options for [pausing billing] are very limited. The only option is one month pause, with no option to unpause or auto-repause. I don’t need the additional psychological hit of clicking a button that is like admitting “well, there goes another month”. It also doesn’t allow those who want to continue supporting me through the hiatus to do so, and since I've got the setting enabled that lets people be billed on different days, it could lead to some folks getting unevenly billed. They way it is now sucks, but it sucks for everyone equally. If people don’t feel I’m holding up my end of the deal, they SHOULD cancel.