Hey everybody, I hope that your week is going well. I wanted to pop in to let you know about a change to LotMG that I'll be implementing one week from today.

Instead of posting one long(ish) chapter each day, I'll be posting two shorter ones instead (sometimes, I'll just post two long ones, especially in the next arc), at our usual time, Monday - Friday. I will also be raising the minimum daily word count by 200 words from that point on. This is something that I've been working on for months now, and the adjustment is finally ready to go live. I wanted to finish releasing book one and give you advanced notice before changing up your viewing experience even a little, and take the time to explain why I'm making the adjustment beforehand.

I'm thrilled to have made it this far with my story, and I'm super grateful for what I already have. But I still have a long way to go if I want to make this my career and the next major step for me, as far as Royal Road goes, is to get my story higher on the popular this week list.

The way that the list works means that releasing more more chapters will make any given story more competitive. At my size, if I want to have any chance of rising on page one, let alone break into the top ten (the RR frontpage), going beyond 5 chapters per week is the only way to make it happen. Many of the top authors (Actus, Wolfshine, Kae, DreamTickler, etc.) are already going with a 7-14+ chapters per week model, and I'm learning by following their example (they are also all amazing writers with excellent stories).

On your end, it just means that you will have to click one more button every day to read the story (which might take a few days/weeks to get used to), but on mine it means a chance to have the story reach far more eyeballs, draw in additional income through patreon, and improve my odds of finding a publisher (when the time is right).

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But there are other, story based reasons why the change is good too (or I wouldn't be willing to do it no matter what). It will let me write shorter complete scenes some of the time, instead of having to pad each of them out to 1.5k words (there will still be lots of longer scenes too). I will have more flexibility with the pacing and variety in the kind scenes can I write going forward, which should help make the story better over time.

The chapters released each day won't always be the same length, although they will always be designed to be read together. Instead, they will be divided in the best places for completing each scene, which gives me even more options for creating content (for example, pairing a long scene with a short scene on the same day, two medium scenes, or one really long one). As a result, each book will be released at least two weeks faster than before with the combined results of these changes.

As I mentioned earlier, I'll be increasing the minimum words per day from 1400 to 1600. There will still be many days that are longer than this, including quite a few 3000+ word days in the next arc.

I hope that this change will bolster the success of the book over time, as well as increase the story's flexibility and variety. Please let me know if you have any questions, your feedback is invaluable as always.

Thanks for your ongoing support, it makes all the difference while I'm learning how to make this my fulltime career.

All the best,

Magnus

TL/DR: There will be more chapters per week, and also more words, taking us through the book at least two weeks faster than before.