Phantasia

Dreaded for you, perhaps – not so much for me! How long will it last? Only until September. As I’ve mentioned before in these updates, it’s mainly to give me time to build up a new backlog. So it’s not so much a break for me, as I’ll still be working on Phantasia as much as ever XD

#69 will be published when it’s done. Getting #68 done in time was a bit of a struggle (these chapters can take anywhere between 10-20 hours to write, you know! Even more if I throw in a lot of a lot of illustrations) so I’ll just have to see how it goes. Thing with writing is that sometimes you can write loads, and sometimes it just doesn’t come – having to write a whole chapter from scratch in a matter of days isn’t a task I relish (unless I was getting paid to do it)!

But do not panic! I still plan to update the site with bonus (filler, if you want) content. Not sure if there will be a schedule for that – I’ll try making better use of the Facebook page to keep people notified on stuff.

In the meantime, some artwork. First up an illustration of Deneb I did to prepare for #68, and second we have the title art for #69.

I know you’re going to hate me for this, but yes, I’m once again skipping a week and releasing #68 next week instead >_>

And I’ll be taking a break over August, after #69.

I’ve not only got to focus on pulling myself out of near-poverty, I’ve got to get at least a handful of chapters ahead of posting schedule so that I don’t keep having these breaks! And besides, I’m currently producing fiction at faster rate than a lot of actual professionals XD (the series has recently passed the quarter-million words mark, which is over a thousand pages in traditional book terms!)

But do not panic, for I will be releasing extra material in place of chapters! And the break will give me a chance to focus on revising the earlier parts of the story of publication.

Hopefully I’ll be updating over the next couple of days with some of that extra material, so keep an eye out! Meanwhile here’s some art from #68…