My interest in this hobby has built up quite a bit over the last few months, such that instead of sitting down to play Warcraft at the end of a day, I’m building something or painting. I like the change.
I’m also watching the success of certain hobby bloggers, and certain podcasts and I’m a little jealous – I’ve been writing for 3 years (…that sneaks up on you…), and I barely know my audience, where my podcasty friends have fans coming to take photos with them at Adepticon!
I think a big difference is marketing. I started this blog because I love writing, and I wanted to get into photography some more, and wanted some motivation to paint more and bingo-bango, here we are. But that’s totally different than if you’re actually trying to build an audience.
Another difference is that of reliability. Certain bloggers are writing daily, even several times a day! The podcast folks put something out every 2-3 weeks. I write when I feel like it, and sometimes not even then! Taking photos, editing, writing, proofreading, etc, takes a lot of time when I could be sleeping or painting or watching Game of Thrones. 😛
It turns out that the blogs birthday is on May 27th, it’s third year of existence, and I’d like to celebrate by changing up my format a bit. Whenever I do something hobby, I’m going to post a photo, maybe two and some quick words about what I did. This will have a few effects:
- Smaller chunks of “what I did” are easier to follow. The first stegadon painting post is 1 step, out of a hundred and now you know how I did it exactly. (well…except for the water bit, which I never count exactly >.<)
- If I stop editing my photos and start just taking a few quick ones with my phone, the photo aspect won’t be as onerous.
- More regular writing, and potentially easier to follow writing, means that someone could toss my blog into their RSS and feel like it added some value to their daily reading.
I’ll continue to do “milestone” posts with the tripod and the good camera and lighting and maybe a gradient backdrop and some white balancing and fun stuff like that.
Thanks for reading!
3 Comments
Muskie
May 6, 2013 at 9:54 amWhat about me, am I your biggest fan? I haven’t played or painted in over two years I’d say. I don’t even have any of that crap in Vancouver except a few stray goblin spearman who wouldn’t fit in my other miniature cases. I need another miniature case, I’m actually going to sell two of those Ikea display cases I think. I keep meaning to put them online. I keep reading the odd blog, I have no idea how the game works anymore, I’ve yet to play sixth or buy a finecaste miniature. I’d just like to get what I’ve already bought painted someday and add a few more showpiece type models to my main army. Owen wants me to finish the goblins, but they a nightmare, 100s of almost identical little plastic models.
rythos42
May 6, 2013 at 10:13 amI think you’re my second biggest fan – Duke comments more regularly with cheerful “Great job!” and “Looks good!”, etc. 🙂
I bought a Finecast, it’s still in the clamshell. Sixth is fun, but I’m playing more Fantasy and/or other companies games. 🙂
Muskie
May 6, 2013 at 8:53 pmThose comments don’t count, a robot could make them. Are you sure this Duke is human?
🙂