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State of the Serial - June 2025
🕑 Added 2025-06-28 06:35:57 +0000 UTCHoly shit there's so many of you now. Wow, okay.
Hi! I'm Vora. I write This Magical Girl is Mine, the web serial that you are all presumably here to read. This upcoming week is break week, so I thought I'd try to slip in a little bit of extra content and share the state of the serial and my plans for the future.
First and foremost: TMGM has been an amazing success. Royal Road is almost to 2,000 followers, which is a huge milestone, and the Patreon is right now hovering around $750/month, only $250 short of my goal. If I can get to $1,000/month, I will feel financially secure and able to both contribute to rent/bills and have a regular food budget. My hope is that I'll reach that as the serial continues to grow, though growth is slowing down considerably now that I'm off Rising Stars.
It makes me so happy to be writing something that people are excited to read. My last project, Feast or Famine, was creatively satisfying but ultimately not very popular, which meant I couldn't afford to prioritize working on it over job and life stuff. TMGM, on the other hand, is something I am fully committing to as my highest priority. I do not want to miss a week of updates for this project.
To that end, although we are technically coming up on my break week, I will probably be writing through it. I need to rebuild my backlog, both to make things easier on my editors and so that I have a bit of a safety net if I crash hard and can't finish a chapter in time for the weekly updates (as almost happened this week).
I also want to do more community engagement! The serial has attracted a fair few Magic: the Gathering players, and I'd like to start running events on the Discord. So far I've seen interest in mostly Standard, Limited, and Commander, so that'll probably be the bulk of things, but I'd love to introduce more people to Dandan or Canlander. No strict ETA, but for scheduling I'm thinking Friday afternoons.
Lastly, I've seen some talk in web serial spaces that a good way to grow a Patreon is to offer a single advance chapter for free. How would y'all feel about that? I'll only do it if I can get an extra chapter out for tiered patrons first, but I want to hear if this sounds like a good idea.
Thank you, everyone. You're the reason I get to do what I love.
Comments
VoraVora
I'm thinking of starting that next month, but there's 14 chapters of this story currently on royal road https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/118714/this-magical-girl-is-mine
Aaron Quinton
Hey, I read Feast or Famine and I was wondering if you will post a free sampler chapter of this one? I know you were kicking around the idea. I’d just like to know what it’s all about before I upgrade. Please and thank you. 🙏🏻
Lako
Congrats on the growth. I really like TMGM but just wanted you to know, that I always read "TMGM" as Teenage Mutant Ginja Murtles.
Kelly Chan
I don't consciously remember any other authors that give a free extra chapter on patreon but I think that'd be a great idea! Like a gateway drug to the real thing! Make them desperate for more until they can no longer take any more and must give in to paying you 5 dollary doos for more content! Mwahaha!!! It gets them on the patreon page when they might've not gone there at all and gets them one step closer to pulling the trigger.
Leviathon251
Loving this new project. Just wanted to say i devoured feast or famine when I found it like 2 years ago and absolutely loved it. I just checked and I've missed the most recent updates. Just thought you should know that at least someone thinks it was cool as hell. :)
Lucy Stella Kitsune
I'll never say no to more content as long as it's not purchased with the creator's physical or mental health. And yeah I think giving people a sneak peek at the patreon experience is a good way to get people interested. That said I'm not sure if it's that impactful, given you're already providing chapters for free on RR, but having one free advance chapter on Patreon will if nothing else at least get people onto the site
Borat
If everyone is getting an extra chapter then yeah I don't see any drawbacks, more content is always welcome
Aaron Quinton
Sounds like a plan
