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Schedule, Waiting and Creativity

I've started out publishing daily chapters for Casual Heroing on RoyalRoad. Why? I needed the feedback look to keep me going. You need adrenaline, serotonine, dopamine. And your own ego can't always make up for that. Anger, happiness, depression. They all fuel writing. But without feedback from readers, even just seeing how many readers interact with you, it's impossible to start the engine.

When I started publishing on Patreon, the obvious choice was to implement the same daily schedule. A quick fix of dopamine, right? Well, not exactly. The rate of reader/comments doesn't vary that much from RR to Patreon. I ignore the reason and I don't really need to know why for now. But what I know is that unless you have more than a thousand Patrons, you can't expect too many comments or likes. And that comes with a price. Many writers can't survive if they think they are sending their words out into the void. They need to know what's out there, and that whoever is out there will answer back. In fact, I believe that Echo Chambers might be incredibly good for writers.

But my usual strong interactions with the readers were kind of gone on Patreon. I got nothing much, to be honest. And then, I noticed that one thing is publishing on a daily basis, and one thing is publishing what you write on a daily basis. Writing takes time, Writing takes waiting.