Shinrabansho: Myriad Souls

Hey everymeow! I just had a terrible night. I brought it on myself by eating KFC with a bit too much lemonade last night, even though it seemed lower sodium than usual. The gravy didn’t have much flavor, which should have meant that, I feel. The tenders were good, but the popcorn chicken they brought back wasn’t as good as expected.

Anyway the consequences was having severe palpitations for hours on end while I was trying to sleep. Eventually I got to sleep. I woke up with tingling arms, not like I haven’t before. I usually have palpitations when I wake up. Maybe that’s a sign of sleep apnea. I’m not looking forward to having to use a CPAP like my grandfather had to. He had heart issues too, but probably different ones from mine.

Anyway, aside from an update on my health and how I’m doing, here’s the questions that I really created this faux chapter for. I did it this way because I wanted all readers who are interested in book 3 to weigh in on the question. It’s one that won’t benefit you from remaining silent. Let’s see what you think about this proposal:

If I were to start posting book 3 starting from when I was satisfied that enough readers have taken the time to vote, would you be satisfied with weekly releases without illustrations initially?

The reason why I’m asking you that is because illustrations take more of my time than I can spare while writing. I was also afraid that I would lose my drive to write for various reasons. Poor reactions to this or that, and due to a lack of support. No faves, no comments, etc. I wanted to guarantee that I would finish the book.

Some of you have seen what happens I get depressed. I melt down. I’ve taken whole books down and they’ve gone on permanent hiatuses.

If you want to increase the chances that I will finish book three and continue writing Shinrabansho, please take the time to fave chapters that you like and if you can’t do that, at least comment. Those both show me that you care, and I need it.

This is a solemn pinky promise between us. If you vote yes, that means that you agree to support me however you can. If you lied and didn’t cheer me however you could later on, that would inevitably affect my drive.

If you enjoy this book, please let me know that. If you don’t like it, please just don’t read it. If you’re staying, that says that you like it enough to keep going. So then my question is why you didn’t take the time to comment or fave while reading?

This question affects whether you get to read Shinrabansho: Myriad Souls - Facing the Future earlier than expected. With my health declining somewhat, I’m worried that I may not be able to keep my promise to release this story from a few weeks to a month.

So the alternative to this arrangement is potentially waiting a little longer for me to finish. My heart conditions also made me worry that I might be working a little too hard as well, but I really want to finish this book. It’s funny that this book is enormous. it’s already over 500,000 and creeping towards 600,000. But since the biggest book in history is over a million words, I feel like there’s still some room for my book to grow, LOL.

Please let me know what you think of my proposal in comments as well as the poll!