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Tenebroum's Creeping Success
🕑 Added 2023-07-21 14:00:10 +0000 UTCWell, I think it's safe to say that the new tier was indeed a success. Thank you to everyone that upped your pledges to see what was lurking in the dark...
I was notified by one of my new Patron's that I failed to properly set up discord access for Tenebroum PLUS, and they were totally right. It looks like I failed to do that for Golemancer too. That has been corrected now, so if you wanted to chat on discord, now you can!
So Tenebroum is more than twice as successful as all my other stories combined. On RR it's in the top .1% of stories by rating, the top 1% of stories by follower count, and the top 2% by views. It's killing it (literally and figuratively). Really, the only problem is that there isn't enough of it.
As things stand right now Arc 3 won't even finish until like the end of next year. I think we can all agree that's far too long. So, let me tell you how we're going to fix that. Sometime later this year, after I rap up other commitments and free up my schedule a bit more (shorts, maps, etc), and gear down my writing a little bit so I can focus more on school, I will start working toward taking Tenebroum twice a week.
Is this a paradox? No!
Once my backlog project was done, it freed up a lot of time, which I moved into shorts (17 written, 1 acceptance, 6 rejections), but I only need to write a few more this summer and that will be done. Those words will then eventually move into More Tenebroum.
That will start in the form of bonus chapters (1/month for Tenebroum Readers, 2/month for Tenebroum PLUS) sometime this fall, and then when everything else is done, sometime early next year the readers of RR and SH will start getting 6 chapters/month. So that will mean free readers get 6 chapters a month, and paid readers get 7 or 8. Could that increase in the future?
Yeah. Maybe. Long term, I want to write 15-20k words a week, so a scenario where RR/SH gets 8 chapters a month and Patron's get 10/12 chapters a month is entirely possible. But before I commit to that, I need to finish outlining Arc 3 and 4 and decide on a couple important plot points.
Because I want to tell this story, not drag it out until like 2026 or more. So, all of that is more to look forward to, but I won't let any of this get in the way of existing stories, which means it has to wait until I finish my Re-entry rewrite and a couple other projects. Once all that is done though...
Anyway, thank you all for your support, your enthusiasm, and your continued patience. It means the world to me.
