translating_wizard
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Thank you! I need your advice!
🕑 Added 2019-06-03 16:59:35 +0000 UTC
Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing great!
This is a bit of a long post, but I would really appreciate it if you all read it all the way through. However, before I move on to anything, I want to say: thank you all for supporting me, and sticking with me along the way.
Now, I have something that's been bothering me for half a year, and I want to get it off my chest. I wanted to apologize for my rather hectic release schedule. I'm sorry about that, but there is a reason behind it.
Around one year ago, I was approached by J_Otaku to translate this novel that he liked.
I had a job, but was going into summer break, so I decided to do as many chapters as possible, since the novel was rather long.
Your support was phenomenal, and by the time I was about to be back to my job, which I hated, I was making close to as much money as I made there just through your support.
A month and half into trying to balance translation and work, I found that I had to make a choice, and I loved working on this novel. I decided to quit my job, and focus on translating H.P.S.T. I increased the number of monthly for all tiers, and I had some big projects in mind, related to this novel.
I started to work on those projects. However, things soon changed. My income began dropping (as shown in the graph) by the end of the year. Being a father of two, I had to work on the side to keep things working financially.
This month, I'm making less than what I made on my first month here on Patreon. It’s been getting worse and worse, and that’s why my schedule has been so hectic.
I absolutely appreciate all your support, and I love you all, but this drop has been frustrating, and to be honest, it's been making me sad.
My plans: I will continue to release chapters following the current schedule for as long as I can. I'm sorry I can't deliver those side projects I mentioned, I hope things get better and I could get back to them.
You've been all so supportive, and I can't dare ask you for any more support. I just would like to have your advice: Have I done wrong at any point? Is there anything I could do to improve your experience, and perhaps, my income?
I really fell in love with doing this, and I would love to be able to continue this journey, so any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Sharing my work with your friends would help as well, and I'll most grateful for that.
Again, I love you all <3 Thank you for sharing this journey with me ^^
Comments
Translating_Wizard
Thank you Nithroel, for all your past support and for your kind words and advice! Yes, doing more than one novel might help, but I guess I can't do it now with this one getting as many chapters as i can deliver.
Puuyo
The problem is that it's basically a fanfic novel which has a niche audience to begin with. Another problem is the nature of patreon. There is a lot of people out there to support, and with readers especially would prefer to sub for a month to binge read chapters then wait for a period of time then re-sub. This is negated when you are translating more than one novel - leading to dedicated people to stay subscribed for something besides one novel. Thank you for what you have done so far, and I wish you the best of luck.
Translating_Wizard
Thank you so much Beavaa! It has always been heart-warming to read comments like yours, and it's been what kept fueling me with the drive to carry on! I love you all, I really do, and it is my pleasure to deliver these chapters for you! Thank you!
Translating_Wizard
Thank you so much for your suggestion Adrian; I'll try to learn about this, and see if it's feasible without some negative consequences (like, I don't know other sites' rules and regulations about what could be posted. In fact, one of the projects I wanted to achieve back when things were going better financially was translating the first 80 chapters myself, as that could give new readers a better perspective of the story.
Thank you for hard work really I really appreciate your hard, definitely not only me but also the other loyal readers. I really wish we could do more than this but I really just want to say thank you and we’ll be here to support you. (:
I don't know if this would help but you could post the first 100 chapters on some other novel websites to promote HPST. Like webnovel or some other site with voting and let people upvote so more people see the novel which maybe helps you getting more patreons.
Translating_Wizard
Thank you Jay for your kind words! I'm glad you like my work, and it's my pleasure delivering it ^^ And thank you for your support! All you support is great, and had helped make people I love happy. I can't thank you enough for that!
Thank you for your hard work for this novel i like to read this Story after work but sorry i can`t help you with this hard decision for your life and that of your family PS my buget is too tight would like to spend more
