Chapter going up! Author going down? (Patreon)

The next chapter is written and headed your way in a few minutes. That's the good news. The bad news is that I am being destroyed by the flu. It's kicking my whole entire body, and I have the muscle aches to prove it.

I'm lucky I finished the first draft of this chapter early. I'm less lucky that I made an effort to do that because I was planning to go on a trip this weekend and I really wanted to get a second chapter done, or close to it, before I left. That did not happen...

I don't know yet if this is the kind of situation where I'll get over the hump today and then feel pretty good tomorrow, or if I'm in for a longer ride. I figure I'll have a better sense of that based on how I feel when I wake up again.

Will update you tomorrow evening to let you know if I'm more alive or more dead. But since we're here and this has come up, let me run the Author Down! Emergency Plan I'm considering past you all.

We are not in a part of the story where I was planning to take a break. I was thinking one might come up three or so months from now. But this is also not a bad place for one. I think. So, if I'm still super sick tomorrow and unlikely to get you guys the next chapter, I'm considering pausing billing for a month.

What I would do during the pause:

There's a lot of work that I want to do on Super Supportive to make the experience of reading it better for you and writing it better for me. Priority one would be getting a small backlog of chapters. Priority two might be some revision work on the early parts of the story and really tackling the business end of things (figuring out audio books, figuring out ebooks, publishers, etc...).

What you would do during the pause:

Receive no charges from my Patreon for one month starting on the day of the pause.

I hope some of you would stick around and talk to me once a week. I'm under the impression, after reading the Patreon post on billing pauses, that I can still make new posts and members can still read my posts even if they're not being charged. So I was hoping to give a weekly update of some kind, maybe with a couple of questions from the recent 20 Question Q&A that turned into the 200 Question Q&A answered. I'd really like to sneak a chapter in for you guys, too. So that the story doesn't go cold in your minds.

So that's what's up, and what might happen if I'm still in bad shape tomorrow. If you see any glaring flaws in this plan or know about pitfalls I might not be aware of, let me know.

Chapter incoming!