Yeah, I haven’t posted a new comic yet. Still lagging a bit. This is not necessarily a bad thing. There are two things that are causing the comic lag:
- A stronger focus on my job
- The idea of a consolidated website
The first is pretty self-explanatory - I have been focusing more on work and it has drained me of much of my mental energy. I realized that, to really move forward with my work, I must allocate more brain power to it. For a couple of years, I have been stalled a bit at my job as I was working on my comic producing. I love the comics but I’m finding a fulfillment in what I do for my day job. The more I focus on that day job, the more the comics seem to take a back seat. I will always have the desire to do the comics but, for the time being, I need to devote the gray matter to my job; for me, for my boss, and for the business itself.
Secondly, I have been toying with the idea of a consolidated website. While it may seem that my other comic “Perk at Work” and the “Burrito Magazine” have nothing to do with “In The Way”, it actually does… it has me in common. With that in mind, I’ve been thinking of making one website that will house all the stuff I do instead of multiple websites for specific titles. The latter would make sense if there were more people working on these projects, but there are not. Just me. So a consolidated website may be best. Any suggestions or insight?
I will post another comic soon, probably after the new year (Gregorian calendar new year, that is). Right now I gotta take it a bit easy as that aforementioned work is demanding a chunk of me. But life is good and there’s always time for comics. Now I just need to carve out some time to visit the comics I’ve been missing. Confession: sometimes I yearn for a boring job so that I could read webcomics all day. Another confession: that type of job would drive me crazy.
Oh, and p.s., my WordPress is acting goofy too. See how it doesn’t break up my paragraphs? Argh!
Sometimes the html gets wonky. Just go to posting via html and put a to separate paragraphs.
I complain but it’s still better than doing it with Frontpage and all that nonsense.
I guess you have to put things in their right order Jason. Sometimes we need to give more priority to what we need to do rather than what we want to do. I had thought at one time of giving Ratbags & The Krittles their own separate websites & then having another blog for more regular blog type stuff. After thinking about it I decided it would be more time consuming for both myself & my readers so I stuck to an all in one site. Just the one site with combined Comics & blog posts all in one certainly is easier to manage.
I must say I’ve been problem free since abandoning self hosted & moving to Blogger. I just post stuff & Google looks after the background stuff for me as my self hosted site problems & errors just kept increasing till it finally died. I just didn’t have the tech knowledge to deal with any problems that arose.
I’m still flirting with the idea. But it seems more conducive to a busy schedule.