Mondaily

Business as Usual

Sketch Fest is coming, this Friday and Saturday! Woo!

Remember to get your gryphon-themed work in for EMG-Zine (stories, poems or artwork)! We're 24% of the way to keeping EMG-Zine alive past this December - if you appreciate this publication, please let other people know about it, and consider a subscription. Subscriptions come with advertising, so this is an incredibly cheap way to get your site some publicity, support a really fantastic and valuable 'zine and get ad- and nag-free access to a wealth of fantastic articles. We've got FIVE years of amazing articles available, which you can search.

This is also the last week to nominate EMG-Zine for a Rose and Bay award in the 'other' category! (Torn World and Sketch Fest have been nominated, thank you so much!)

Portrait Adoption artists, there is a new submitted description available! That makes four, right now, all between $125 and $225.

The queue at Fantastic Portfolios is empty right now! It's a good time to submit a new portfolio, if you've been thinking about it... especially since I'm setting February aside to give this project my steely capitalist eye of doom.

Did I mention that Commission Control got fully funded? I'm very excited to get this going! :)

See what happened last week at Torn World.

Weekend Update

It was a busy weekend. I got the EMG-Zine site updated, and set the fundraising goals and got the anthologies back up for sale. I started on a re-vamp of the article pages, which will be less cumbersome in general, and will also count and cap your article viewing if you aren't subscribed. I'm thinking you'll get 4 as a visitor, 8 as a logged-in reader, and unlimited as a subscriber.

I also got the language database at Torn World up for beta testing. There's still a lot left to do there, but the tables are all in place, and the system works in a very simple fashion. My next step is to wrangle bulk adding tools, because adding one word at a time will take for freaking ever. Then, the user-end of things, with search and alphabetizing functions. I don't think that will happen this week, because I've got Commission Control, Sketch Fest and some freelance projects on deck. I did get the staff page updated, and the member pages now show 5 thumbnails of artwork, and you can leave art comments directly on that page, and there's a page that shows the work reserved for subscribers (not including art).

I also fixed a sketch that I still need to scan, and got a handful of emails written, though it was barely a scratch on the surface of the disaster that is my inbox. (Those of you waiting for replies, I am sorry and hang my head in shame...)

List:

Two print orders

2 boxes

ACEO box for AT

Art supply box (oh, so many awesome choices!!)

Appt at 3

Return Netflix disc (Fringe!! WANT NEXT DISC!)

Contact locals to deliver their boxes

Finish DM site

Work on C-C site

Prod on SE and PE sites - waiting for materials and access.

Improvements to SF site: Better supporter perks (especially notation on the prompt page), ability to upload to old sketch fests/claim old work. Fix prompt page so it doesn't run so slow (too many pictures!), break out finished sketches to new pages, streamline data requests.

Emails

Finish Winter Sketch

Finish writing The Visit


Hmm... there's some serious blurring here between what I want to do TODAY and what I want to get done this week. Ah well... back to it, now.