Major Poll (Public) - Release Schedule

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Get out your Torches and Pitchforks everyone! Its time for our First MAJOR Poll!

This one's Important to, so I highly recommend that everyone take the time to read carefully and chose just as much.

For the First poll, I'm leaving the Fate of the Release Schedule in you, the Readers hands! A reminder though, as this is Public Poll, Patreon Readers get DOUBLE their standard Voting power, if you really want to make your vote have the most POP.

The Poll will run until Monday morning!

And remember, we have a Minor Poll coming up later today too, so keep an Eye out for that as well!

To Start off, here are the Options!

(WpC = Words per Chapter / WpW = Words per Week)

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1250-1500 WpC / 5000-6000 WpW/ 4 chapters a week

This is the release Schedule recommend to be quite a few successful Authors and is probably one you'll recognize from many stories on Royal Road.

The idea behind this one is Maximizing Exposure and Momentum, and I can see both the appeal and logic to it. That being said, the Weekly word count will be slightly lower than the other two options to account for increased editing time.

Release days will likely be Mon+Tues and Thurs/Fri

Pros: Builds on the Momentum of release week, and maximizes exposure for more eyes on the story. This also means you get more Chapters, faster, with little waiting time between those dreaded Cliffies.

Cons: A faster paced release means less time for editing, means lower overall word count. But not by much; roughly a Chapter's worth a month. This option also doesn't have much room for short term growth, as I'll be dropping chapters as fast as I can make them, meaning my Stockpile will grow slowly, or even shrink if an issue occurs.

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1850-2150 WpC / 5550 - 6,450 WpW / 3 chapters a week.

This my personal Favorite (Plus 100 votes!)(J/k), and it strikes a nice balance between keeping momentum and longer, more chunky chapters with more content. This also happens to be (or similar to) the Release Schedule of some bigger names, like [He Who Fights With Monsters], [Beware of Chicken] and [Cinnamon Bun]

Release days will likely be [Mon+Tues+Fri] OR [Mon+Thurs+Fri].

Maybe even rotating. If you have a preference, feel free to leave a comment bellow

Pros: A good balance between quick releases and Chonky story. While it doesn't keep momentum as well as 4 day or (shutter) daily releases, It offers plenty of room for growth, both for overall word could and Stockpile, meaning a much higher chance of increases to the Advanced chapters and more Extra chapters overall.

Cons: It doesn't keep as much momentum as a quicker release, and runs the risk of slower Fan base growth. We're already in the Rising Stars (Woohoo! good job everyone!) but with less exposure, hitting the top will be harder.

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2850-3500 WpC / 5700 - 7000 WpW / 2 chapters a week

Lastly we have this one.

Right awhile you might realize that the biggest plus here is the much higher Word Count. Chapters in this Schedule will be substantially larger than the other two. This is mostly do to having far more time to both Write and Edit, either spending 1-2 hours releasing over every site, daily. This means the Story will progress quite a bit faster, overall.

More Time also means I have grow my Stockpile FAR quicker. This in turn means a lot more Extra chapters and even periodic increases to the Patreon Advanced Chapters. But it also means a longer wait between chapters and far less Exposure, meaning I'd heavily rely on you all as the readers to be a part of spreading the out and getting the Novel into new Hands.

Pros: Higher word count, Faster story progression, more Extra Chapters and Periodic Patreon Chapter advancement! There's a lot that comes with this one, But I know its not for everyone, either! If a large enough Stockpile is build up, this one might even Evolve into one of the other two, but with Higher word count as well (I.E. 3 Chapters a week, at 2850 words a chapter)

Cons: Far less Exposure, slower updates. the potential to be Buried under faster novels.