Update
Submitted chapter 13 of Banished to Lit, so that might be up by next weekend. Will do an update of the character cheat sheet a little later tonight as well, to add in the new characters, as well as the ones that I missed.
I'm a little torn on how to proceed atm. The plan was a third chapter of Banished, but I am feeling a bit fatigued, so I'm thinking to either take a break for a day or two, or figure out if a different story, or taking another try at trapped might be the way forward from here.
Will do another update when I come to a decision.
Take care,
Kousaka~
Comments (4)
Take all the time you need man, we're right behind you :)
I appreciate the kind words. :)
Never forget that this isn't a job you're doing. Don't forget to enjoy life every once in a while, and don't burn yourself out. You're a great author, I'd hate for something to take the fun out of writing for you. If you feel you need to change your schedule or the directions you were originally going with when founding this patreon, do so. Sure you will perhaps loose a few supporters in the short term, but your strategy needs to be viable in the long term if you want to make this a bigger part of your life. I don't think you should abandon the Trapped series for too long tough (as in years or so) because this seems to me like a typical authors problem that you will inevitably encounter at some point in your career anyways. I'm sure there is tons of advice from other authors out there on how to deal with this kind of Problem. Read up on it and try to figure out what works best for you, just don't tugg the problem away somewhere until it solves itself. Remember that we are also here as a community to advise and help you if you ever need our opinion on stuff, the power of the hive mind is not to be underestimated Take care and be well Rider
Thanks for the kind words. I definitely don't plan on abandoning Trapped for such a long period, but it's not really what I would consider a typical author problem. I wrote Trapped to completion while I was working last year, but due to work constraints, I did so by hand, and due to the difficulties of writing it like that, there is a lot of fixing to do for sections which were written shoddily, or to make it flow more smoothly with the rest of the narrative. The problem I'm having right now is that the bit I've gotten to is what I worked on during the months when my job was such a nightmare that it drove me to being near suicidal. Thankfully, I was able to leave that job, but it did trigger a bit of a mental breakdown, which i think also pushed my health into complications, as i spent almost all of December last year and some of January being quite ill. The result of that and something which I'm still dealing with tbh is that sometimes I get serious anxiety over little things which reminds me of that period of my life, and unfortunately, one of those things is the little notebook which I've written these final chapters in. I'm working through it slowly, but it got pretty bad last month, and not wanting to ruin the progress I made since returning to writing, I decided to put it down, at least for now. But my anxieties are slowly getting better, and I think, if not this month, then by next month minimum I'll be able to get back to working on it. :)