This weekend was enlightening, to say the least.

The trailer (which I've muttered about on IRC, in metadata and to various people in the meatsphere) is still a good idea, still something I want to do, and definitely not an August Project. For one thing, August is half over and I'm still working on the July workload. For another, holy shit on toast - while my hardware can barely handle 720p, my current disk capacity can handle, at most, twenty or thirty seconds of it. As for rendering... thirty minutes of setup, five hours of grind for a five second preview render that looks good aesthetically but falls way short in the animation department and I'm back to thinking Best Use Of Limited Time.

Right now, that ain't it. Another six months of heavy grind on pages and I'll definitely have something to talk about. Six pages from now, DCR will be done with transitional material and setting. All Plot, all the time. Three and a half chapters of it. Finally.

In light of that, I think production of actual pages needs to be the priority. After most of a year (or two years, depending on how you look at it) of shifting, splitting, multiplying, changing priorities... putting another distraction in front of the story seems like something I need to stop doing.

Like, now.

That said, any work or real solid decision-making on the DCR website is also A Distraction, at least at the moment. As such, DCR strips will post to the DCR site until the end of chapter two, which is a good time and place to shift gears - consolidating the comic projects onto the ATC site and retooling the DCR website as.... something else.

I know regular updates matter quite a bit, but damn. Averaging thirty hits a day for ATC and eighteen or so for DCR, with almost all of DCR's traffic coming from google image search.

Anayltics numbers don't go back to The Beginning - back then I used Webalizer - but they do go back far enough to see a definite dip.

That's what happens when you don't advertise, don't interact with the community, and don't update. Or so I've been told. Updates are the only thing I really have to go on, and there haven't been many of those over the past couple of years - moreso over the past couple of months, if you want to count the Rewriting Rampage as updating. Which, if the numbers are anything to go by, nobody did.

Not really sure what to do about that, really - marketing has never been one of the legs this thing stands on. I'd like the site to be in better shape, but I've been using that as an excuse for years. I'd like to be updating regularly again, but my workload presently prohibits that... which, as a starting point, is something I can eventually fix.

I'd also like to get to a point where I can write outside of a bar or coffee shop. That will probably take longer.

Or, perhaps, it'll happen concurrently.

Maybe it'll all happen concurrently.

Things usually do.