Nov11-17; On laziness and Social Networking
Heavy duty lessons and levels of emotional intensity, along with ‘should I stay or should I go’ scenarios, and reminders of people who have up and left; any and all of things are what’s on top of the stack at the moment. You know for sure that you’ll make it through this, but right now you’re feeling like it would be great if someone or something would come to the rescue. If I told you that this too shall pass would it help? Beyond that, it looks to me like this isn’t over yet. Don’t succumb to despair. If you play your cards right your deepest wish will come true.
~Cal Garrison
Once again, this woman delivers the advice I needed exactly when and why I needed it. What the frick.
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Page nine of WS still isn't done. Why? Because I am an over-ambitious idiot who insists on attempting to draw detailed backgrounds with complicated perspectives. And did I mention horses? A freaking lot of horses. Next time I insist on pairing a tribal culture with a whole herd of the damned things, please shoot me.
That being said, I am actually pretty proud of myself for this. The scripting is coming along well, though I would like a second opinion on it (my beta is awesomely awesome, but I'm a firm believer in multiple sets of eyes) as my beta-the-second has given up her position due to RL issues. If anyone on my FL has some free time and wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate it. Totally willing to trade beta-ing, or possibly art sketches (though please understand there's a wait on the latter. Standing commissions and all that jazz).
I'm considering switching over to Let It Be next week, as a bit of a "break," though I really need to be working on Endangered as well. LiB is only six pages, though, so in a week I could have a complete short story. Either way, I think that will be done by mid December.
Back on Wind Spirits, though, I've decided to give myself a firm deadline of January 1st, no matter what. That day, the site is launching officially, and the first seven pages are going to be released, at the very least. This gives me a little under two months to finish the first chapter, and retool the website. Considering what I've proven I can get done when I have a short deadline, I think that's doable. But this involves some other considerations, like promotion posters and banner ads. I've been reading over articles on marketing, and... well that's what I do at work, but I'm still not sure what my best bet on marketing for an article would be. Especially when it comes to social networks.
I've been told that StumbleUpon works very well for some people. I recently joined up and took a look around it, and it does seem as though it could work--but in order for it to pick up initial momentum, several people have to "stumble" your website, not just one. So, question number one to cyberspace, how many people use Stumble, here? How many people actively "like" websites on StumbleUpon?
Then there's the ever-popular facebook. Some webcomics have success in making something called "fanpages" for their comics, and tend to generate some mild traffic from that. I know I have friends on FB, though I don't currently use it myself. Is this a feature that, hypothetically , you would use?
Aside from that, though, all I've heard is mixed results. Twitter works for some crowds, it doesn't for others. Advertisement programs, like Project Wonderful, work for things, and not for others. As those programs are usually paid, I'm not sure how viable that option really is at the moment. Are there any social sites that I haven't heard about, which you use?
And I think that's enough rambling from me for now. XD I have got to get better at this whole... article writing jazz.
Originally posted at The Mouse Hole.
~Cal Garrison
Once again, this woman delivers the advice I needed exactly when and why I needed it. What the frick.
--
Page nine of WS still isn't done. Why? Because I am an over-ambitious idiot who insists on attempting to draw detailed backgrounds with complicated perspectives. And did I mention horses? A freaking lot of horses. Next time I insist on pairing a tribal culture with a whole herd of the damned things, please shoot me.
That being said, I am actually pretty proud of myself for this. The scripting is coming along well, though I would like a second opinion on it (my beta is awesomely awesome, but I'm a firm believer in multiple sets of eyes) as my beta-the-second has given up her position due to RL issues. If anyone on my FL has some free time and wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate it. Totally willing to trade beta-ing, or possibly art sketches (though please understand there's a wait on the latter. Standing commissions and all that jazz).
I'm considering switching over to Let It Be next week, as a bit of a "break," though I really need to be working on Endangered as well. LiB is only six pages, though, so in a week I could have a complete short story. Either way, I think that will be done by mid December.
Back on Wind Spirits, though, I've decided to give myself a firm deadline of January 1st, no matter what. That day, the site is launching officially, and the first seven pages are going to be released, at the very least. This gives me a little under two months to finish the first chapter, and retool the website. Considering what I've proven I can get done when I have a short deadline, I think that's doable. But this involves some other considerations, like promotion posters and banner ads. I've been reading over articles on marketing, and... well that's what I do at work, but I'm still not sure what my best bet on marketing for an article would be. Especially when it comes to social networks.
I've been told that StumbleUpon works very well for some people. I recently joined up and took a look around it, and it does seem as though it could work--but in order for it to pick up initial momentum, several people have to "stumble" your website, not just one. So, question number one to cyberspace, how many people use Stumble, here? How many people actively "like" websites on StumbleUpon?
Then there's the ever-popular facebook. Some webcomics have success in making something called "fanpages" for their comics, and tend to generate some mild traffic from that. I know I have friends on FB, though I don't currently use it myself. Is this a feature that, hypothetically , you would use?
Aside from that, though, all I've heard is mixed results. Twitter works for some crowds, it doesn't for others. Advertisement programs, like Project Wonderful, work for things, and not for others. As those programs are usually paid, I'm not sure how viable that option really is at the moment. Are there any social sites that I haven't heard about, which you use?
And I think that's enough rambling from me for now. XD I have got to get better at this whole... article writing jazz.
Originally posted at The Mouse Hole.