.jpg "I think Faye could pull it off. She'd just need to remove the sleeves, lower the neckline, convert the trousers into a mini-dress, open up the front, dye it red and hey presto! It's perfect!")
Aug 12
I sometimes worry that because I only update the story twice a week it might lose momentum. I wish I could update it every single day, but unfortunately other commitments prevent me from doing so. I guess, to a certain extent, I am writing for ‘the archive’ and readers going through in the future will get to experience each story in its entirety at their own pace.
I love writing and drawing Girls in Space. It constantly presents me with challenges to get my teeth into. Last week, I had a week off work and it gave me the opportunity to just mess around with how I draw the comic. With an abundance of time I was able to try things out without any looming deadlines to stop me. I learned about a couple of techniques which will make the way I shade the characters so much faster and, I hope, better. It makes me wonder what other secrets Photoshop is hiding from me. Adobe – reveal your secrets to this humble follower!!
Ahem.
Tune in next week to find out what ‘The Button’ actually does!
Of course its going to make a *klik* sound. A most satisfying *klik* sound.
The sort of satisfying klik sound normally reserved for putting a dislocated arm, leg or head back into its socket! Klik. Aaaah!
A comic I follow, freakangels, updates once a week, but 7 pages at a time. While that does work out to once a day, more then your current schedule, it also means that the readers sit down and read seven pages at once, so you spend a lot less time trying to remember what happened last, and don’t loose the thread of the (often complex) plot so often. I wonder if you’d be better off publishing eight pages once a month then one page every three and a half days.
Some interesting food for thought, theorbtwo…
Although I will always keep posting pages twice a week for free, you’ve given me an idea for a way to potentially monetise the comic in the future.
Each story is 34 pages so if I was able to get my buffer up to 34 pages (it is at 18 pages just now) I would be a full story ahead of the site, so I could make the *next* adventure available in its entirety as a downloadable PDF *before* it gets posted week by week. So in other words, there would be no change for the majority of readers who would continue to read the story at the current pace (and of course for free), but for anyone wanting to read a whole new story in one chunk before it goes out for free, there would be a small downloading fee.
It’s an interesting thought and I’ll run it through my mental filter, so thank you for posting your message.
NOT GREY!!!!! A hasty decision? Not when it comes to fashion I guess. lol
She’s a dedicated follower of fashion!
A lot of comics only update twice a week (take Marooned as an example) and do just fine as a comic who has a serial type story constantly in play. I think it’s fine, I’ve been following your strip and I always know where things are and whats going on.
What readers don’t like is when you stop updating on a regular basis and you throw off their reading schedule…. not that I have any experience with THAT aspect! (cough)
Thanks for the comments jynksie. It’s reassuring t hear, especially as I have no option to increase the pages per week without compromising somewhere else! Meh. I think once I have expanded my buffer I’d like to try the idea I discussed above. At least it’ll give readers a second option. Cheers!
heheh, it comes down to fashion
Incidentally, that’s the same reason I’m wearing this ball gown right now. Don’t ask.
I was doubly worried about this with the pace of once/week with INM. It’s why I have not yet aggressively advertised. I needed enough of a story to build up. I’ve had a few comments of how the story picked up towards the end of the current archive so those people might have never come back if I’d introduced them to the story early on. It’s also a major reason why I’m moving to twice weekly updates for Season 3 – especially since there’s a lot of plot to set into motion in the beginning of a new set of stories (as you commented earlier in this book 2)
I definitely would recommend going to twice a week if you can. If it helps, I used to post on a Monday and Friday, but then I realised when I looked at my traffic that the Monday pages were getting read a lot more than the Friday ones, and it was because for people who read at work/school, they would have four working days where they would be shown the Monday post, but only one working day for the Friday one. When I changed to Thursday it helped the balance. I just mention it in case it helps your scheduling when you more to twice weekly.
Hahaha, so Fashion was the final string? Hahaha funny