I think I’m starting to get to grips with the SEO requirements that go with making a living from sites like Suite101.  I’m set to get a small payment from them this month and I got one last month too, which means I’m starting to earn a small income from my writing there.  It’s only a tad over ten dollars (about six quid in English terms) but it’s something.

If I can build it up, perhaps I’ll get to the point where I can pay my bills through writing articles for Suite, as some other writers have managed.  It will be a long haul but one has to remember that freelance writing – and especially freelance writing on the Internet – is a business.  No business has ever made enough to pay the bills without a lot of damn hard work being put into it.  I am therefore both up for the challenge and prepared for the realities of hard, uncompromising work that come with it.

Speaking of work, I have spend the day drawing the Best New Comic Award ceremony for the Webcomic List Awards.  I wrote an article on the awards back in December and won an Editor’s Choice Award for it, which was nice, and now I’m happy to announce that my part in this year’s events is pretty much done.

I’m happy not because I don’t want to be involved (I do and I’ll join in again later in the year, when the next set of awards begin) but because now the art requirements are over, I can get back to finishing my own comics.

All over the mouse is nearing completion now and I’m sorry to say that I’m glad it is.  It has been a long, hard slog – longer and harder than I had planned – and I need to get back to the joke-a-day format if I’m going to keep up being able to write and blog as well as draw comics.  Doing these massive comics is a lot of hard work, and quite frankly they’re taking up too much of my time.  I can’t devote eight hours a day, three days a week to producing a comic; not when I also have writing to do.  It’s just too much.

So, when the comic finishes in about 5-6 episodes time, I will be happy to get back to the old 3-panel format.  That’s not to say I wish I’d never started the story because I’m glad I did.  I’ve told a story that needed telling and I’m happy to get some of the Nob Mouse backstory fleshed out, plus I got to explain the consequences of Emily and Tesrin’s time-travel escapades so, overall, the story has been a success.  I’m just sorry that I feel like I’m dragging it out.

Tags: All over the house, articles, comics, suite101, The Life of Nob T. Mouse, writing

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