[ SECRET POST #1046 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1046 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

THIS goes into effect starting with Submissions Post 151, as secrets were posted before the poll went up last week.

Secrets Left to Post: 15 pages, 353 secrets from Secret Submission Post #150.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2- not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [
1 2 3 4 5 6 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[halcyonjazz.livejournal.com]

That clears things up, thank you, but I have to say that's extremely, extremely judgmental.

My gut knee-jerk thought is "...who are you to say what sort of WIPs or the amount is okay for public viewing?" I, too, know many artists/writers who are permanently stuck in the developing stage but I also equally know plenty of artists/writers who actually, like, produce what they're developing. And, let me say because I HIGHLY disagree with this opinion that it's "counterproductive", it has nothing to do on what and how they are showing it and everything to do with how determined they are to work on their own project.

I am saying this separately from EK and TJ & Amal--though my opinion on that is, well, considering she's released preview books of the first couple of chapters, and she has a set deadline and is currently to-date completing... chapter 16 or some high number right now after about 2 years of constant work on it outside of dealing with waitressing and also a full time job? Sitting there and judging "oh, it's a WIP that will never be done" is extremely disrespectful in my eyes. I am pointing this out because you yourself called this inspirational, which to me is the most counter-intuitive part of your comments.

[childings.livejournal.com]

You don't feel like having a huge fanbase for your work in progress provides an incentive for lengthening the process that goes into finishing an actual comic? Personally, I would rather see an actual finished product (I plan on buying it, actually) than constant updates with sketches, thumbnails, etc. That stuff is a nice bonus but I would rather just see an actual comic. I know she's busy but it's been well over a year since she's been working on this and she hasn't even finished one chapter yet. Yes it's inspirational to see her work and fascinating to see the progress that goes into a project like that but at some point you need to stop indulging your fanbase, that's all I'm saying.

[halcyonjazz.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't feel that way, that's why I'm commenting to you saying that I strongly disagree, because I feel someone should. From personal experience, the project I am revolving 90% of my life right now would not have come to be if not for the small fanbase that spawned from it. It would have faded into the ether as 'just another idea' and the surprise interest in the characters I made up made me take a second look, and then a third, and soon there was an entire story and plot and now I'm very much in the same position as EK--making ends meet so I can spend the rest of my free time developing a comic.

So, yes, showing developing work to a fanbase does provide incentive to actually get off my ass and do it.

Again, how much you show your audience is not a factor in whether the project in question will be developed to finish or not, it would be the personality of the person doing it. Whether YOU yourself, as the audience, would not like to see the developing work or the finished project is a different subjective matter, but that too has no factor on the artist/writer in question.

And as personal defence on EK: yes, yes she has finished one chapter. In fact she's finished several. If I recall right she published the first five in a preview book and currently working on chapters as high as 16, as I mentioned previously.

Basically this returns to my previous point: your views are extremely judgmental, and in fact it seems like your projecting your own work habits on a complete stranger.