Hey everyone,

I'm just gonna be straight with all of you.

While I've been trying to keep the weekly release schedule as regular as possible, doing this while working a busy job and keeping family affairs sorted out has had its wear on me and I am really starting to feel the burn out approaching. The semi turbulent nature of the last arc's chapter releases, as well as a few crazy errors (like that stretch of chapters where I kept switching tenses for no reason) are a result of that, and before it gets out of hand I start losing the passion I have for this series I think I need a period of time where I just need to take a step back and clear my head.

To that effect, Hedge Knight is going to be on a month long break starting tomorrow. The Patreon will be paused during this time and in full transparency I will probably be doing nothing for like a week after that break starts. The weeks following, however, I will be doing some rethinking on how I want to approach Hedge Knight's trajectory. The plot and story I want to tell will remain untouched, but things like release schedule, taking time to edit my many mistakes, audiobook recording, rewriting some of the early arcs to match the quality of the later ones, and expanding the story's reach will be focused on. I was going to release part of the next arc to the public, but after some thinking I think its more fair to take this break with Arc 4 complete and them coming back with a new arc rather than dangling a thread in front of you all.

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While I am eternally grateful for the amount of people that like the story already, I would like a shot at making this story my full time passion. Not only so I can get it out faster, but also be able to enhance it with things like commissioning artwork of the characters and certain scenes, among other things. The audiobook, especially, needs to actually be worked on, and I need to figure out how I'm going to do that and catch up to the current chapters while making sure the plot is actively moving.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can expand this story's reach, please let me know. I'm well aware my style isn't meta friendly, but I would like some tips on how to adjust a few things to get more eyes on the project while keeping this story true to itself, because honestly when it comes to advertising and getting the word out I am a complete novice. However, there is enough written in the story now that I feel comfortable with trying to draw more eyes on it, and any pointers on how to do that would be greatly appreciated (I am very aware I need to be doing shout out and review swaps on this site, that's part of some of the restructuring I plan on doing).

Though the story is not getting an update for a month, I will still be responding to comments as they come in, so please, give me feedback on anything you can think of. It can be concerning anything from the story itself to what I was mentioning above. There is a lot I can learn in many aspects and I'd like to hear what you all think.

I will see you all around! Hedge Knight will be back soon, I promise.