Status Update (Still Breathin')

Hey everyone. It’s been a while.

So, first off, let me just apologize for the silence on both Patreon and Discord. Things have just been exhausting for me the last few months, both physically and mentally. As I said in my last update, after my dad got Covid, and after nearly having a god damn breakdown worrying about him dying, I was suddenly let go from some of my part-time jobs, and needed to find new work. Thankfully, I found work (as a sort of home care assistant to some old folks, helping them with things like shopping or cooking or making sure they get and take their medicine or cleaning their houses and more), as well as just being a delivery person for some nearby restaurants. For a while, it looked like things were getting better.

Then I broke my hand.

Okay, sprained, but it sure felt like I broke it. How’d I sprained it? I fell down some stairs. No, really. I was exhausted, I was barely able to put one foot in front of the other without stumbling, and I missed a step. Then I took a nasty tumble down a really long flight of stairs, and they hurt like a motherfucker. When I stopped at the landing between flights, I was in a pain-filled daze, my ears ringing, groaning and feeling like my wrist had been snapped like a twig. I don’t know how long I was on the floor, but at some point, I got up, walked away, making the pain even worse.

From there, here’s a summary of what happened: went to doctor, doctor told me I sprained wrist, got a few nasty bruises all over my body and a minor concussion, and once he heard that I haven’t been sleeping and been working day and night, told me I needed to rest; contacted my bosses, explained the situation, told them I needed time off, was let go from delivery job, but kept job as home care assistant; during “medical leave”, feel like I’m useless and not doing anything to help out my family, making me feel even more useless especially when I now have to pay more bills because of getting myself hurt in such a stupid way, and even when I finally get back to work after healing up, that feeling wouldn’t leave me, like I’m not doing enough and my own body’s betraying me, and then, whenever I try to write, absolutely nothing comes up.

So yeah. It’s been a few shit months.

I have found another delivery job to replace my old one, and there were no lingering complications from my fall. I won’t say things are good concerning money right now, but they’re manageable, at least for the time being. Which brings me to to the first of two important messages.

The first being, a big, heartfelt thank you to everyone that has donated too the patreon. It really means a lot to me that you guys are still willing to help out even without any content for the last few months. Every dollar has helped, especially with just how hectic and crazy things can get in the world right now.

The second important message is two fold: One is that I got some free time to write again, and don’t feel like crap doing so, so I’m gonna try and work on he next chapter for RoR. And this ties in with some changes I’ve made to both the Patreon and Discord, specifically concerning one  of the rewards for the Amateur Mage tier. From now on, instead of being able to vote for on an idea to become a snippet, you’ll instead be able to see previews of my upcoming works.I made this change because it didn’t seem like the polls were very popular, most likely because my update schedule is so slow and people didn’t feel like voting for ideas that would take some time to see the light of day, so this is my way of giving you a different reward with more immediate benefits. Namely that you can see me work on various stories as I write them whenever I get free time. I’ll try and write something as often as I can, that way you all get the most out of this benefit. But since voting and suggesting ideas are no longer an option, I will be deleting those related channels.

So, those are all my announcements. Please note that despite how grim I’m sounding, I just want you guys to know that not everything in my life has gone to absolute shit. I still have all of you, after all, and I still plan on writing as much as I can and, eventually, finishing my stories. Once again, thank you all for the support you’ve given me.