How much percentage of time and energy do you spent on writing? As a free rider it would be sorry to see you burnout.

It varies a bit from month to month, but let me summarize it this way. Here’s the base amount of words I publish in a month:

For the tumblr, I post around 1000 words a day seven days a week (currently), so that’s about 30,000 words, give or take a day.

For Patreon, I post about 8000-10,000 bonus content per month separate from that.

Then, for Patreon commissions, I write anywhere from 10,000 to 13,000 words, though some of that can overlap with the tumblr stuff.

That’s…basically anywhere from 45,000 to 60,000 words a month, at a minimum–I have months where I’m more productive than that, and I have some where I’m less (like this month, which was…a bit rough, getting everything done!)

If I’m writing at speed, I can do around 1500 to 2000 words an hour, so over the course of the month, if I’m working at my most efficient speed (hahaha, yeah right) then I put in around 30 hours a month writing. That doesn’t account for administrative stuff, like discussing commissions, editing, revising, managing Patreon, brainstorming, etc. I’m also not usually working efficiently, so I’d ballpark it at 40-50 hours a month, or 10-15 hours a week. My general goal is to write 10,000 words a week, and sometimes I can hit 15,000 if the stars align.

As far as burnout goes….that’s a legitimate concern. It hasn’t really reared its; ugly head as badly as it has in the past, I think, and I do have quite a bit of content squirreled away if I really hit a rough patch. Mostly I just need the money more than anything else, especially since income has been tight for us the last few months, due to some job struggles. If anything, I mostly feel bad that the daily grind of the tumblr posts really cuts into a lot of the longer form stories I want to write, publish and post someday, but which I just don’t have time to work on. For now, this is working, and I enjoy it, and I’m glad other people enjoy it, and anyone who can pitch in one buck, or buy one of my stories on itch.io, or hell, just pitch me a couple bucks on paypal or zelle or whatever has my unending gratitude.