Things are really picking up steam with the first issue of The
Chronicles of the Tal Nor. Kelsea,
my amazing artist has been cracking out the line work like crazy and it's
amazing. I'm really excited to see what it looks like after she colors the
pages. She is an amazing watercolorist
and if you don't believe me check out our first book I Hate When They Run HERE.
I also have been moving things forward with some of the
other item's that I'm making to go along with the IndieGoGo funding campaign we
will run to fund the printing of the first issue (and hopefully more issue
beyond that). Some of these things that
my friends are making are truly breath taking.
It's nice to see all this amazing work.
It's also scary as hell.
With every step we get closer to making this a real thing the stronger
my anxiety about it seems to get. I have
so much fear that I will not pull this off.
The fear voices in my head are telling me enough stories of why I'll fail
to put Scheherazade to shame. It's hard not to believe lies that my depression
and anxiety are telling, but I'm trying my best to fight them back. I'm sure this is something everyone who makes
things, who puts themselves out there, goes through.
And I have contingency.
If the IndieGoGo fails, there is the bonus from my day job coming up. I don't even want to think how anxious I'll
be the week of my review if I need to rely on that to fund this thing. You see at my day job bonus are all based on
our yearly reviews. The better the
review, the more of our bonus we get. If
we hit all our goals we get the full thing, if we fall sure we only get a
percentage.
But that months away, I have things much close to be excited
and stressed about. Like the Spring City
Local Author Fest at the Spring City Library on Saturday April 18th
11am to 4pm. It should be a lot of
fun. I'll be selling copies of my comics
as well as giving a talk on how comics are made. Kind of scared of giving the talk for all of the
reasons. Please come out and make sure
the No One Shows Up reason doesn't come true.
If you come by I'll show you some of the works in progress for the first
issue of The Chronicles of the Tal Nor. Click HERE for more details.
While we're still in the prep phase of the IndieGoGo campaign
I have a question for you dear reader; what donation rewards would you like to
see? Also how much would you be willing
to give in return?
For those not familiar with IndieGoGo, it's online crowd funding
platform. The best way to describe it is
it like an online PBS pledge drive for one specific project. Much like PBS, rewards or incentives are
given for donating at certain levels.
Like if you donate $3 you'll get a digital copy of the comic, $5,000 and
you'll get a dream date with Ed Cunningham (That's a WHYY joke for people not
from Philly). I have come up with a nice
list of rewards for when we go live but since we have some time I'd love your
input dear reader.
OK, I've put off "real" writing for long enough.
Keep making things!
T.
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