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[frameacloud]

The comic for August 26!

What, another one? Yes!

The first birthday of Theri There is coming up soon on September 4... a whole year! Many webcomics never make it that far. Although I have a zillion scripts and comic ideas in my notebooks, there were stretches when I wondered if I could ever find the time to make finished versions of any of them. A comic a week sounds easy until you get into midterms, and once you've lost your pace at comic updates, it's hard to pick it up again.

In celebration of Theri There's upcoming birthday, I'm going to make sure that this will be a full year of comics. In the past, I've missed 17 of the weekly comics, and now I'm going to make up for each of them. That's why there's an additional update today: it's a replacement for January 16, the first update that I missed. It cuts the count of missed comics down to 16 and raises the list of finished comics to 32.

[Edit 2017-04-03: Updated link.]

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[baxil.livejournal.com]

... Also, if I can offer some unsolicited advice ... my productivity is almost never lower than when I'm staring at a giant backlog, trying to hack it all down at once. You might work differently; your mileage may vary. But if it were me, I wouldn't worry about how far I'm "behind," and I'd set my one-year goal by looking only at forward projections. Such as, "From now until Sept. 4, I'll post a new comic every weekday," or "Starting now, for the indefinite future, I'll update twice a week." (You could continue just until the "backlog" is erased, or you could keep up the new schedule if it fires you up.)

Apropos of nothing, any plans for multi-strip storylines or recurring characters in the works?

[frameacloud]

*nods* What I was thinking of was to temporarily switch to updating the comic daily until the backlog was made up. I would just think of it as a daily comic, not "sixteen more to go," which is-- yes-- one of those views that tends to intimidate the muse.

"Apropos of nothing, any plans for multi-strip storylines or recurring characters in the works?"
I sketched out a plan for a multi-strip storyline last spring, but it doesn't seem to be ready to use yet. The comic is settling into a set of recurring characters on its own; some of the characters ended up having names as of last March, but I haven't had an excuse to mention that in the comics yet.