W M wrote:Sounds like a good problem to have, CCP;VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:"I've got all my strips that run through May," I says. "I can take a break for a long while," I says. "I don't need to color, ink, sketch, write, anything, for the next month and a half," I says.
Naturally NOW is when the wave of really wanting and being able to work on it hits me. I rushed so fast to finish enough to get me through the end of the school year that it only made me want to do MORE work.
I'm not complaining, I'm just friggin perplexed.
It's kind of an itchy situation though... I have so much finished that I feel like my actual site should have more on it too, but updating once a week means I only have three strips up right now. I want to just upload everything so I can have a sizeable archive and actually start showing this thing to people, but if I do put it all up now I got nothin' once it runs out. I could use some more patience, if anyone has any sitting around.
It seems like the "once a week" deadline you have set for yourself isn't enough of a challenge: maybe try twice a week? or heck, thrice a week?
You might actually work faster than you expected, so your update periods might needed to be adjusted time-to-time.
Maybe try building up your archive first before setting update periods, so first-time viewers will have an adequate amount to look at (instead of 5-10 minutes' worth)
(Is strip format really that much faster than page format? I might put some serio0us consideration into switching, or work few strips on the side)
My main issue is that I need this buffer to last me until I'm home from school, since while I'm here I don't have a scanner and don't want to be mooching off of my friends that do all the time (since I already abuse their printers as it is
). What I've uploaded will last until May 7, giving me a week once I'm home to upload anything I've finished while being away at school. I'm definitely going to look into getting a scanner for the next school year since this is getting silly. I don't think once a week would bother me so much if I hadn't done five out of the seven or so strips all within one week of each other. Perhaps someday I'll go to at least two a week, though that would mean packing in a lot more pages, or episodes/updates whathaveyou, into a given season, which right now is about 20 pages over the course of four and a half months.
Boy, I can't wait to have a nice plump archive with at least seven strips in it. That's why I've pretty much kept from linking the site to anything or showing it to anyone yet. I've done a lot of work so far, but most of that work isn't reflected on the website itself- it's a lot of sketching, inking, et al. How nice it will be a few months down the line when I will have accomplished more than I currently have.
