ericdontigney
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No new Vol 13 chapters today or tomorrow
🕑 Added 2025-10-02 23:40:29 +0000 UTCSorry everybody. There won't be any chapters today or tomorrow.
On a completely related note... For anyone who thinks that the best way to encourage more and better work from a writer, one who just told you they'll be burning the candle at both ends for a while, is to tell them that the thing they just spent months of their life on is pointless shit... You are wrong.
What that is super good at accomplishing is making an overtired person angry. You know, almost like there's a human being reading those comments. A human being who just got insulted. You know what I don't do well when I'm seething. I don't write good chapters. I don't even write bad chapters. I just sit at my keyboard, seething, and not writing. All goddamn day.
So, I'm going to take the weekend, try to cool down, and then decide what the best route forward is. Part of me thinks it might be time to shut down this page in its current incarnation and start over again. Maybe set up a page strictly for unintended cultivator (one where I don't interact at all), and then another page for everything else. Another part of me thinks that maybe it's time to let go of Patreon entirely. I know that some of that is a knee-jerk reaction, but it's where my head is at right now.
Assuming I don't just shut it down, the less angry part of my brain is telling me it's time to re-institute my policy of not reading any comments. I know everyone hated it when I turned off comments for half a book, so I'm looking for a compromise that avoids that. Just not reading the comments feels like that compromise.
Anyways, that's what's going on.
Comments
Joe
Have you hired a staff yet? I feel like you could hire someone to be your moderator and read your comments. Give you the helpful ones, kick anyone violating the rules, and help you watch your channel. This would also lead into you getting helpful data for growing your brand. You are one of the best authors I have followed. I often get board with some storylines and drop the series. They become predictable. This is the best book series I have ever read. Your grammar is great, your hamster l hilarious, you make me cry, you make me laugh, I get surprised, I get mad (at an idiot character). My emotions have been all over the board. I love it. You are going places. A team would help you do it.
jtruant
Also - and I truly mean this in a nonjudgmental or condescending way - I’d look into getting a therapist if you haven’t already. I have therapy once a week and it’s basically prevented me from going into a rage or depression fugue multiple times.
