An open-ended beginning

Hello dear readers,

I wanted to start my Patreon-only content by telling you what you can expect from me. Since I'm not a visual artist, I won't have many artworks to share outside of some spoilers if you'll want to see them. I could post sketches and such, but that will be dependent on you, if you prefer to see spoilers or not. This will be a blog in most ways and I'll be talking about various things surrounding my visual novel and sometimes how my life is going. 

A little about me then, so you get to know a bit about who I am. I'm not going to go into much detail, but just enough for you to get the overall feel of who you're supporting. I'm 37 now and will be 38 in January of next year. I have been into the furry fandom for just over a year actively. Before that, I only saw furry art online and liked it. I somehow stumbled across a link about a furry visual novel and ended up reading it. Then I read more and more. So after getting deeper into the feel for the community, I decided to go to Eurofurence last year and finally step into the furry fandom for real. I've already met some nice people and I'm quite happy with the start that I had into the fandom, although I have a more "advanced" age than the typical furry. 

I used to work a job that was somewhat rewarding, but in the end, it felt like my life was heading nowhere, so I decided to quit. I was making a good amount of money and some people called me "a total idiot" for quitting, but money isn't everything in life...Not for me at least. Sure...we need money to survive and that's a fact. But there are plenty of ways to make money that don't involve feeling depressed, physically unhealthy, and mentally on edge almost all the time. And with that in mind...

I'm going to give it a real shot at doing this full-time: writing stories and creating visual novels. I don't know if it will work out, but I want to chase something I believe in. There is the looming threat of AI maybe writing better than me and what I'm doing now may become obsolete in a few years. Well, I don't care about that. I love writing stories. When I walk down the street sometimes, I get a glimpse of a thread in my mind and I unravel it into a plot point, then a bigger paragraph, then the characters somehow jump out at me, and the dialogue and the narration and on and on and on. I can't escape it. I tried, having worked in a  more corporate atmosphere for years. I realized early that I was attracted to the creative parts of that work and honestly, one of the best parts of my former job was getting to write a blog. 

So yeah...I'll try to get this going as best I can. If this doesn't work out, I have enough experience in my line of work that I won't have to fear finding a job again in my previous field. But I would prefer this to go all the way. I know I know...it's a huge task, to say the least. I do believe in my stories and myself enough to know that consistency and hard work will lead to success. I just need to keep focused and everything else will fall into place. 

There are only three of you now that can read this as of today. Thanks for supporting me. It really means a lot to know that somewhere out there three people believed in my story enough to help out. I'll do my best to make you proud for being an early supporter. Truly, thank you.

See you in Stradia!

- Hadrian Maximus