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Info on Delays, Yootie Life Update, Second Story
🕑 Added 2025-08-03 11:03:21 +0000 UTC[TLDR: I'm moving! Expect some more delayed chapters for the rest of August, and afterward, I'll be starting a second story.]
Hi readers! Sunspot has had a lot of delayed chapters recently, and I wanted to shed some light about what's causing it and what it means for the story, since I'll be too busy for the next couple of weeks to dedicate meaningful time to Sunspot.
What's going on: I'm moving! This is a pretty complicated and labor-intensive process, of course, and extra draining when I'm running around Tokyo in the summer heat. It's been very smooth sailing overall (compared to the clusterfuck it could be), but the amount of effort necessary has nonetheless made it challenging for me to find both the time and energy for regular updates of Sunspot at a chapter length and quality I'm happy with. I was hoping to at least be done writing Arc 3 before now so I wouldn't have to worry about the story while I deal with life stuff, but here we are.
The good news is that we're more than halfway there at this point. At time of writing, the actual move is taking place in 12 hours, and then it'll be about two more weeks until I'll be fully situated in the new place with my PC properly set up again. Until then, I'll be writing on my laptop when I'm able to -- which is suboptimal, and I won't have much in the way of a writing routine, but I'm still aiming to get chapters out sporadically. Arc 3 should finish for public readers by about the end of September if everything goes well.
This is a pretty big life change (I've lived in my current place for over two and a half years!) but not caused by any kind of disaster in my life, so don't worry, I'll be safe and healthy and comfortable once the dust settles. I'll hopefully be moving again in a few more months (early next year, maybe), which will bring a similar level of disruption on my end, but I'm going to try to be more prepared for it then and have it minimally impact Sunspot's update schedule.
This brings me to the second point of this post: In those months, I'm also hoping to start a second story! I've actually already started drafting it, and while I don't want to say too much yet, I will reveal that the working title is Punch the Hurricane. What I can tell you so far:
It's about sky islands and pirates and such.
I'm hoping to give it a semi-regular release schedule for supporters here on Patreon as I write it, before the public RR/Shub/site launch.
It won't be as long as Sunspot. I don't have a specific length locked in yet, but it'll probably be shorter overall than Sunspot is now. Don't hold me to that, though, since webserial authors are famously terrible at following through on our promises of shorter stories.
Sunspot will continue at its current schedule while I write PtH, barring any more disruptions to my life.
Unlike Sunspot, PtH may eventually stub for publishing if it performs well. Money's nice.
Fair warning: it'll be less gender and more RR-typical than Sunspot. Still with some gender, still with lesbians, just not the eggtastic yuri extravaganza of Sunspot.
I'll say more about it once I make more progress on drafting, but overall I'm excited about it!
So yeah, that's what's up with Yootie! Give me a few more weeks to get my life back into a stable routine and the words shall flow once more, and in even greater quantities (and hopefully quality!) than before. Thank you to everybody who's still supporting me while updates are intermittent -- it's making a pretty huge difference to both my morale and the financial realities of this process. Sunspot's success has brought a seismic change to the trajectory of my life, and that's directly thanks to you guys. The best is yet to come, I hope.
Comments
Eiren Rain
good luck with the move! and then with the move back! hype <3
