It seems you have a million things to do. You start to feel like you can't keep up with it all. You have to do the layouts for the next installment of Enrod The Clockman, but you also need to get your earlier works formatted for DriveThruComics.com. There are so many formats to mess with. The easiest are .pdf and .cbz. You've got Guns, Robots, and Talking Animals and Headhunter uploaded, but only in .pdf format. You haven't taken the time to get .cbz files for them made because it took you twenty hours to get them rebuilt and tested for .pdf. Droid Soldiers Chapter One was a bit easier, less pages. You still have some page edits to make on the .cbz file; so you're not going to upload it yet. You also want to get them formated for both Kindle and Nook, but both are going to be a lot of work because you want them to be readable on the small black and white eInk devices, which means you're going to need to cut the pages up into individual panels and arrange in an eye-pleasing manner. Based on your research, you're likely going to have to do this twice, once for each device, as both have different screen capacities. You need to figure out how to stream line this process. You're also still waiting for what you have uploaded to be approved by DriveThruComics for their online store. You hope it's sooner than later, so that you can start promoting them.
The other thing on your head is a digestive disorder that you're not keen to talk about in public, but man is that taking up your time researching and trying to find homeopathic remedies for. When you think back, this problem has probably been going on for years, but in the last couple of weeks it's finally starting to come to a head. So you've finally made an appointment to see a doctor. You have insurance through your day job, but the costs after are still very high, all money you would rather be putting into Enrod The Clockman and Nemion.
That's another thing. Finishing the Nemion album is getting more challenging. You're so close but you've keep finding ways to make it better. In fact, you know there are things wrong with almost every song that you have to fix, and thinking about it all and everything else you've got on your plate makes your head spin. Nemion didn't get accepted into SxSW but you knew you wouldn't, so it's okay. Your putting getting into shows on hold until you get this album done. Nobody wants to hire a band that doesn't have a cd-release.
Then the social distractions, you can't forget about them. They abound. They frustrated. You have no time for them. Hold on a sec, you need to check on dinner....
Almost ready. Another experiment for your digestive issue.
Oh hey, you forgot to talk about your website/PHP issues. You're trying to figure out how to fix up an email form for EnrodX.com, but goddamn if you can't get the generated code from your webbuilder software, the software you used to build ALL your websites, to work on your effing server. You're trying to figure out how to use WordPress so that your sites can be dynamic.
One thing at a time...but time seems to be what is lacking. You only have so much life, yet you have a few thousand graphic novel pages of Enrod's life you want to tell, and at the rate your going you'll be lucky to tell another 1200 or so before your old and decrepit. So you need to figure out how to make this thing good enough that people want to support you financially for it. You need to make it easier for them to do just that than what you've already done. The same goes with Nemion, though thanks to NumberOneMusic.com you're doing a hell of a lot better at acquiring emails from people.
Was going to end here, but you don't want to leave on that last note. Okay, that's good enough.
Go eat dinner before it gets cold.
http://www.enrodx.com
http://nemion.ginckmedia.com
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