This is going to be one of those update chapters, but since I'm here...

quick Russetwave doodle. He's a Where The River Bends character who isn't even born yet but I've planned like eight litters of kits out and some of my favorite designs and characters are in there. 

So. Updates.

As I'm sure you're all aware, we're about halfway through the month of January and while I do have a vacation coming up that will inevitably screw my plans over, I've managed to stick to my New Year's resolution thus far and produce an update (almost) every day. However, while reception on Where The River Bends has been incredibly positive, I have noticed a die off on my reads in Broken Souls and I'm wondering if my updates might be coming out... too fast?
There are worse problems to have, sure, but I find that my comments go waaaaay down when I start speed-updating and though I'm sure most of you prefer it over month-long breaks left and right I don't want to pour too much on if what I am working on isn't even going to get out there. I also get mainly votes instead of comments and while I can't force anyone to do anything these do take a while and feedback would be appreciated occasionally. :/ I'm sure I speak for content creators everywhere when I tell you we invest a lot into our work and the returns are often low. I know, I know, writing for the sake of writing, but still... it would be nice. 

I've always attributed my lack of a core audience (at least in the numbers other people at my age/follower count seem to have) to being a multifandom writer, but lately I'm also beginning to think it's a fundamental issue with how I write or my update schedule. I don't know, I just want to know if I'm doing something wrong.

Angst aside, since I've been going for a while now, I thought I'd also address some plans of mine and how I expect things to turn out in the future.

So: questions and answers, written as if I actually get questions. Feel free to leave your own concerns in the comments and I'll be sure to address them. 

Are you really going to keep up the 1 update per day shtick all year? 

Given that I have crew (and thus won't be getting home until seven some days and will be up at four thirty on others) starting in late February... no. Eventually something is going to happen and I won't be able to keep up. At the very least I want to finish Broken Souls and potentially The Space Between Stars before my next NaNoWriMo.

What will your next NaNoWriMo be?

Dreamland, but you already knew that. More specifically, there are like eight candidates up in the air though only two are really promising and one of them isn't related to the Princess at all, which sounds stupid but the original goal was to just cover as many events in the chronology as possible. It depends on what I think of before I get to October. 

(I came up with half the side characters for Roses and Thorns in the last two weeks of October. Trust me, I can get stuff done fast if need be.) 

Do you have time to read my novel?

Okay, I have gotten requests and I'm really, really trying. Sorry if I don't get to your story but I bookmark everything and try to get around to it where I can, though I do prioritize mutual readers and active accounts. 

Hey, it's the middle of January... where's The Space Between Stars?

I've been working on it for the last seventeen days. The story itself is fine, but there's a huge exposition dump in the first chapter right now and it's just really not new-reader friendly. Cutting it down and molding it into the opening I've envisioned for the new chapter of Dreamland while keeping up my updates on my other books is taking a lot of time.

Is Deja Vu coming out any time soon?

Well, if by soon you mean "in the next few months", sure. I was planning to start it before we start crew regattas (read: April) but I have little planned for the villains and Team Omega continues to lose out character-wise to Team Alpha. Unless I can figure out how to make both teams and the villains interesting overnight, it's going to be a while. I just want it to work when it does come out... you know, so I don't end up with...

Is Extraordinary dead? 

If you mean "dead to me", then yes. The idea was alright but truth be told the planning was sparse and it suffered from a really boring main character who single-handedly screwed the project over for me. You know the whole reactive vs proactive thing? Yeah. Anyways, the thing that makes Roses and Thorns work well (proactive main character) is not present in the slightest here and while it's fine to have your main ease into the world (hero's journey and shit) none of my planning has any real growth for Ylva. Deja Vu is likely going to be a much better human story but fear of it turning out like this book is what's been keeping me off it for so long.

Extraordinary will return when I'm a better writer.

In theory.

Are you okay? If this is stressing you out, don't you think you should be taking a break? (Believe it or not this is one question I do get consistently.) 

Turns out I'm actually more stressed when I'm not writing. Doing this is one of the best parts of my day and my life in general. You wouldn't believe how revolutionary having a real audience is for me as a writer and pushing my wordcounts up is just an incredible, incredible feeling.

I just want to make sure I'm doing it right.

I can't find the DragonClan spoofs...

That's because I deleted them.

I have a policy of not erasing my works just because they've aged to be embarrassingly bad but  the spoofs were often abrasive and certain bits are just AGGRAVATING to read now because of how fucking bullshit they were. To summarize: The jokes weren't funny, the subject matter was ridiculous, and I felt uncomfortable having it up on my page.

Some of it was fine but I don't have time to go through that heap of garbage to fish out the few chapters that didn't make me want to blowtorch my computer screen.

I'm just here for the art. What can I expect in the future?  

This'll be around as much as it always has been. I'm going to try to work on my other projects such that I'm writing more than I'm making art pages (even though they take less time) by a 2:1 ratio, because my books will always be my first priority. Given that this is my eighth chapter of the art book and I've written fifteen chapters since the month started, I'd say I'm on track.

Now that we're getting drabbles, can we have some Galindy fan service? 

No.