I’ve been finding it very hard to find the time and motivation to finish working on the Syrup-Pirates website. Syrup Pirates (at this point in the game) is publishing moniker for all the crap that I publish, and all the video projects that I’ve put together over the years. It’s almost been 10 since I started – It was my senior year of high school I believe.
I used to have a lot of energy back then – back when it used to be zine – back when I used to handcode everything, and had to manually update every single individual page of every individual article, every single time I decided to change either the look of the site or the added a new link to the navbar. I don’t know how I did it…but I did, and I managed to update often.
Now? It’s just a template that I coded in XHTML and CSS that’s loaded by a content management system (CMS) and I have less motivation to get to work on the back-end of things than ever before. In my old age, I’m not so much of a “do-it-ALL-your-damn-selfer” anymore.
It’s a lot of work to get stuff ready for an audience. Which I guess is why not so many people have their own websites anymore, so much as “profiles,” “streams,” and “channels” (the list goes on) these days – leaving the joys of website ownership to the professionals whose careers demand that their portfolios be self contained within a fortress of solitude. Meaning – it’s a lot easier to hand something off to someone else to package, than it is to do all the packaging and marketing yourself.
Marketing can be fun. However, it’s also takes a huge chunk out of my creation time. But what good is a comic or a video if nobody sees it?
So I’ve started sending over comics, mostly a bit older from my book, over to this new zine that asked me to. I really appreciate the interest. It’s called People Under the Stairs, and can be found at www.putszine.com
They update my comics every Monday.
It’s pretty good. Really helping me to get motivated again.
