This past week I did a flurry of work on the Kickstarter campaign this past week. I cleaned up some of the copy on the KS campaign page, chatted with dad about the numbers to make sure I’m not missing anything, and created new media assets like a campaign video and a podcast episode for Travel Writing World. After I deploy this, I’ll launch the Kickstarter page and crash hard....
I’m going to post these creative logs weekly. When I’m in the middle of a project, or during peak times of project-based work, I will update more regularly. This past week A flurry of webwork. I posted a YouTube Video reflecting on crowdfunding THOTS. The previous entries have more details that I won’t repeat here. I picked up William Atkins’ The Immesurable World: Journeys in Desert Places again. Beautiful writing. It is a “big idea” book, as I call them....
I finished the post for Drifting and deployed the site. I toyed around with making icons/sprites for my YouTube videos. I did some light editing on a video and decided to post the long-winded ramble and move on. I thought more about the article I’m working on about project-based creativity. I was recommended Sasha Wolf’s book Photo Work. Webwork Light webwork today. Task List Things I still need to do:...
Today was one of those days where some early meetings/appointments monopolized my creative energies, sucking all the oxygen out of the room. The timing doesn’t help; obligations early in the day tyrannize the rest of it. I did manage to record a chat with Ryan Murdock for his Personal Landscapes podcast, which will air September 26, and draft up a new YouTube video — a ramble really — about my early thoughts Kickstarting/Crowdfunding a book....
Not much creative work today as it was mainly a teaching day. Webwork But I did some webwork. I finished the Creator’s Log category page, and the shortcode and email component (who will want to receive a dry email potentially once a day?) Things I still need to do: fix the formatting issues on the Creator’s Log category page (and add nav links to the single post pages) write a new Drifting find an image for the Starting a Creator’s Log article finish writing the Creator’s Log category page (and the shortcode email sign-up - why not?...