Patreon Announcement: Request for vacation time.

You should set up a week every month where you take a break. Especially during all this pandemic stuff. 👍🏿👍🏿

Donovan Young

It's no big deal.

Original Name

Consider setting a week(or however long) every month where you post nothing? Worth considering even if you are treating this like a full-time job of sorts; having a planned time you could look forward to where you can just do other activities would be a good idea. You would know best the kind of schedule that works for you so I'd say just experiment a little

Ab9999

Yeah I love your stories but don’t put your own needs behind then. Take a break if you need one.

Addison Adams

Feel free, breaks are important

Gremlin Jack

I'm totally fine with you taking a break if you feel you need to.

Jonathan

Go for it man! : )

CB-Otaku

go ahead, we all need a break sometimes.

Cefta

I primarily store anything I write in Dropbox and that way whenever I make a change with Scrivener it auto saves an updates.

Darkarma

Go for it. Enjoy yourself and have some fun because it sounds like you've been cooped up too long. And back up everything, though you probably already did a while ago. Don't know how that's such a common story, losing files... Feel like Cloud and such is practically common sense nowadays lol

Ab9999

Aye, enjoy your week off, lord knows more than a few of us are lazing about.

Alexander Murray

You honestly didn’t need to ask. Do what you need to do. I think most would agree when I say we’d rather you take a break now instead of burning out and dropping a story. We’ll be here, waiting (somewhat) patiently. Have a nice rest.

Lazy Wizard

Go right ahead.

Work Harder Slave!!! Authors begging me to stop, I won't let em! Labor conditions in my box? I don't sweat em!

CallOut4

Do it, burnt out is a death knell for a story.

Zephraim Dotson

Do it. To be honest, I was considering dropping my subscription (Paltry amount though that may be). Darth Hiki and Power Corrupts were my primary reasons to sub in the first place, and with Hiki not updating, and PC going to Skyrim, i've been less enthusiastic. That you've honestly and truthfully reached out means a lot, and I'll be keeping my sub at the current level for now. I hope you get back to a place where you enjoy your writing. Also, depending on your workflow, I highly recommend Dropbox, Google Drive, or iCloud. It's painless to set it up to be syncing automatically in the background, where you wouldn't even have to think about it except in the case of a crash, then you'll find everything you synced still safe. And for text, free tier should be enough.

A person

Don't stress about burnout, go take your break. Just keep in mind not everything can be as perfect as we would like it to be, sometimes "good enough" will just have to do so don't feel bad about a drop in quality. Forcing through a burnout will only make it worse. Take your time, we'll be waiting.

Dust

For only a week? That's it? Hell, I probably wouldn't even have noticed without the heads up. Go for it, chief. Have fun.

Apokalyps117

It’s all good man take your time, enjoy your break

Christian

100%, dog, take a break. You're more than owed one.

Dude, everybody deserves a vacation. Even if this is a labor of love, it's still basically a job. If you need time off, take the time you need. It'll only hurt productivity and quality of your work if you don't take care of yourself. You've definitely earned this. Thank you for providing us with such amazing entertainment up till now. Now go off and enjoy some free time, and we'll be happy to welcome you back when you return well rested.

TinyDeath

I concur, it's not really necessary to ask, but I understand why you did. It's important to take breaks to avoid burnout. Make sure to take care of yourself.

You don't even need to ask, though the heads up is appreciated.

Canadian Tick

I don't think you actually need to ask. Instead I'll thank you for the heads up.

Yeah vacations are good so go ahead

Darkarma

Everyone gets a vacation, if your lucky you usually get 3 to 4 a year. Just because you are self employed doesn't mean you shouldn't get one. If you need a break, then take a break. Burnout will destroy a story faster then anything else.

Evilhippy

Nothing wrong with taking care of your mental health. Thanks for the heads up

Take care of yourself.

Mkaius

Go ahead dude, quality over quantity

Douglas Karr

Enjoy the vacation!!! Read a book, watch a movie, do something fun!!!!

cystrom

Go ahead and relax. Enjoy some quarantine gaming or something.

I'd be happy if you did so. Keeping yourself miserable isn't good for anyone.

ArmsDealer

Take a week off.

marchex

Totes. Enjoy your vacation.

Randall Randall

I'd be fine with you taking a break.

Tempist

Everyone deserves some paid time off. Keeps you from burning out.

The GrandMage

I don't have a problem with it. Burn out has ruined some great stories.

DurinDoric

Take a break. Mental health is damn important.

Taryn Myst

Take the break, no sense in trying to force the muse.

Silvercrystalct

Please take a break

Xegzy

Go right ahead. I completely understand why you need it, and can wait a week while you relax and recharge.

Derek58

Go ahead.

Anonymous Daniel

And, you know, confinement. There's only so much to do after a while...

Aelem

Take some well deserved vacation time. Your health is the priority.

Aelem

Enjoy your vacation.

Wednesday's Jest

Take break, have fun, you've earned it

Templar9999

Consider a cloud or personal backup sever for what you write in the future. Anything can happen, but chances of losing your writings then would be slim to none. I have my own personal NAS, for EVERYTHING.

Ahtu Nyarlathotep

You've been writing good shit on a consistent weekly basis since I first starting reading on QQ. All you're asking for is a week, and nobody's gonna lose their shit, especially if it keeps you from burning out.

That’s chill dude

Elia

Take a break, better to return to this with charged batteries.

Go right ahead, better to rest and recharge then to burn out

Take a break if you feel it is needed, as taking care of one's self is rather important after all.

Ironforge

Yo man, take yourself a break for a week or two and just relax as much as you can. You'v been doing amazing, and quite frankly, some of us are debating giving you a promotion.

Blair Shirley

Yes, please take care of yourself! Don't burn out just trying to catch up and get back to where you were. Take your time and do what you want.

Skia Vasillias

I agree with Eldar Zecore. Take the time off, we will all be better off for it. Thanks for writing and sharing.

Darin Ehrhart

Have fun and relax my dude.

John MacKellar

Take care and be safe

Fasd

I saw on QQ that you had some problems and lost your files! I'm patiently waiting for the day when Dark Hibi will be updated again. you are the author you are free to take a vacation especially if you need it, no need to justify yourself ^^ take care of yourself and see you soon

Ciaphas Cain

I dunno. One of your coworkers called in and we REALLY need you to cover this shift.

The Epitome of Eccentricity

Everybody deserves a break bro

Kersplode

Treat yourself, dear author

Dre'

IG, best buddy, love of my life! Take some time off. Take care of yourself. Relax, maybe learn to do a backflip or something.

Warden

Begone dear writer. Return when you're rested and ready! Seriously though, no problem take a breather.

Geese

I've much rather you took a break instead of burning out and not wanting to write anymore, get some rest man.

Mioismoe

Take care of yourself first. If you need the time off go for it.

Dakkanomics

Everyone deserves a week off here or there. And with how much you work you deserve it.

juntodsf

Take as much time as you need! We love your writing and would hate to see you burnout for good.

We understand you need your rest, go for it, take care of yourself

Take a week off man. You deserve it.

You do you man. Take a break if you need it. None of us want you to burn out on the stories

Christopher Sampson

Hey, that's absolutely fine, dude. Take care of yourself.

Kabir Kumar

Take a break. It's no good forcing yourself and having the quality drop. We don't want a season 8 to happen and you end up hating the story. Hell dbza ended because of burnout and they didn't want to overstay their welcome

Razorfloss razor

If you want to take a week off of writing I say go for it! I would much prefer you taking the break and coming back refreshed with better quality, rather than you be stressed and steadily getting worse

Eldar Zecore

Take care of yourself and enjoy the break!

Lucas Gallant