We Are Experiencing Creative Difficulties. Please Stand By.
Originally I planned to release First and Last and Always in time for the new year. I’ve been working on it, on and off, for about two years now, and I’m more than a little tired of having it on my plate for this long. At the moment it is pretty close to finished, but work is sapping a lot of my time and energy, and the home stretch is more difficult than I really care to admit.
Right now my goal is “by Valentine’s Day, even if I don’t sleep the whole weekend.” We’ll see how that goes.
In the meantime, I have been meaning to keep this site more active. I shouldn’t expect you to come back to the same page for six weeks running, and I feel badly about that. On the other hand, when I started this site, I made a very simple promise to you:
- No filler.
We will not post unless we have things to say. 1000 Gears should be interesting even if you have no idea who we actually are.
Primarily I was concerned with “What kind of X are you?” quiz-memes and similar minutiae that is only actually interesting to the person taking the test. It’s very easy to slip into a routine of posting for the sake of posting, and I like that even less than silence. So, stuck between these two urges, I have a question for you, as my readers. If I were to post, once a week, sharing a small handful of interesting bits I’ve discovered online, would you consider that to be “content” or “filler”?
I personally wouldn’t see it as filler since this is your space. Whatever you have to post would say ‘Hey, I’m alive, so is the site, btw such-and-such.’
If anything, you could always post at the bottom the progress of the story you’ve been working on. That would destroy all ‘filler’ possibilities since you are updating us on how it goes.
Also, though it’s late, hope you had a nice New Year’s :]
Well, it’s my space, but it’s a space that I created to share, in hopes of bringing you stories and thoughts that you’ll enjoy.
I hope you had one, too!
I’ll post the first “notes from the Internet” this Friday and see how it goes over. See you then!
True, but it is nice to hear you’re still alive and the site isn’t whithering away :]
I did, even though work was the next day.
All right, I look forward to it!