It's Over Already?

I still can’t believe that 2023. This year had its share of ups and downs for me, and looking back it feels like this year went by in the blind of an eye, and dragged on for an eternity. So, once again, I’d like to take a bit of time to see how far I’ve come in the last 365 days, see what I’ve done, what I couldn’t do, and share my plans for what I want to do in 2024.

I’ll get the low points out of the way first, namely DeviantArt unilaterally and permanently banning the second account I made to keep my captions and stories separate, and the flood that hit my mom’s house.

I feel like I’ve said enough on the topic of DA not communicating with their users and how vague the rules they have laid out can make a submission safe to one moderator and unacceptable to another. That was roughly two months of making sure everything was titled, tagged, and linked to the original artists properly that went nowhere fast… Getting actual warnings detailing exactly what they deemed a violation to which rule would be infinitely more helpful than the ‘a moderator deemed this submission violated this rule, which could mean five or six different things so good luck figuring out why this was rejected but the one before it that features the same subject matter is fine’. Still, with that said, the reach that DA has is undeniable, and looking at how my financial situation going into 2024… I might just have to try making an account there again, monetize some stuff, and hope for the best. I know I won’t be able to re-reupload everything again, especially characters that ‘are indistinguishable from a minor’ (love the specificity there), but I have other, other plans for that. The Mother’s Day, Futa’s Day, and Halloween caption ‘events’ were really fun for me to do too, and I’d like to try and do something like that again this year, though not so many for Mother’s Day this time.

As for my mom’s house flooding, reconstruction is slow going, but things are moving forward. Clean-up sucked because you didn’t really see the progress you made at the end of the day, but now walls are getting built and stuff, so that’s satisfying to see!

But enough of the heavier topics and mini-rants! Let’s talk about what I managed to accomplish this year. Over the last twelve months, I was able to release exactly 50 stories, 9 published short stories on my Gumroad, and 41 that were posted across my accounts. All together, these stories account for 308000 words written, which is a bit less than last year, but I’m still proud looking back on it all now. With the notes, outlines, and captions I’ve written, that number is likely much higher too, so nothing to be ashamed of at all. And, of course, there are still several of the paid commissions I have yet to find time to post that I wrote too. Though I never got a chance to take any new commissions this year, hopefully my plans don’t get derailed again in the new year and I can take on some before January is done. I’d also like to thank the commissioners that waited so patiently for me to get to their commissions once again. It took me far too long to fulfill your orders, but I hope they were worth the wait.

But with us now moving on to matters of the future, as mentioned above, I do plan on opening commissions again soon, and I am waiting on about five different book covers I’ve commissioned for some stories to go up on my Gumroad store.

Also, if I can, I’ll likely start posting non-commissioned, original stories that I write on Gumroad for free for people who prefer to read in a PDF format. This also means I’ll go back and convert some of my older original stories into PDFs as well. I hesitate to do so for the fanfictions I’ve written, mainly due to copyright issues, which is why, for now, it’ll just be my original stories.

Other than that, I don’t think I have much more to talk about. I’ll be starting on the Lunar New Year story soon, with Hare ‘taking care’ of Rat until handing her off to Dragon, and I have a couple more surprises for everyone. Those will come out either before the year’s over or shortly into 2024, depending on how quickly I can finish them.

Thank you all again for the support you’ve given me. I’ll continue to put my all into writing stories you all enjoy, and I think my goal will be to write stories that will get more comments and reviews! I don’t like asking or pressuring people into commenting on my stories, but I also won’t know what works and what doesn’t if I don’t get any feedback. So, don’t be shy to tell me exactly how you feel about my stories, and I’ll see you all in 2024 for 366 days of fun!

-NRawk

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