Sunday, June 30, 2019
Saturday, June 29, 2019
I Don’t Know How To Use Patreon
The title kind of says it all. I have a Patreon, I used to use it for our old gaming podcast/youtube/streaming community. It was easy to handle then, it made sense and it was simple to execute.
So, I decided to start one for my blog. I was thinking to do so to offset the costs of running the blog, or maybe to help sell myself as a service. There are so many things I could do.
But I honestly don’t know how to do it.
Would people want tangible things like prints and trinkets?
Do people want someone to teach them how to do things in Photoshop? Do they want to learn how to use their cameras? Do they just want someone to come to with questions?
Maybe people just want to use it to have me on retainer (yeah I have that as a rung) to use for editing, etc.
I don’t know, Patreon is a great platform to help creators get paid for their craft. However, it seems like I just have problems putting this all together.
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Friday, June 28, 2019
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Consistency is Key
Consistency is key, that is what I’ve learned. That is what I fail at.
We all have our faults, we all have our little shortcomings, and we all seem to be blind to them until someone else points them out.
That is when it cuts like a knife.
But, sometimes, it’s ok to get cut like that. It opens your eyes to the issues you have and gives you an opportunity to correct them.
I’ve noticed that my fault is not being consistent at everything I do. That seems like a broad generalization of my shortcoming, but it isn’t. I am literally inconsistent at everything.
I love to cook and I love to experiment in cooking. I might come up with some great dish that tastes amazing and looks pretty good. This could be a dinner entree, a dessert, or even just some pancakes. I never write down what I do, I just wing it on what might taste good together, and it works. Then I try to make it again, and I might have forgotten a step or an ingredient, or use too much of one or too little of another. Making the result rather disappointing.
Even this blog has become prey to my inconsistencies. It’s been a struggle really, I know it only takes me 20 or 30 minutes to put together a quick post with tags, photos, and other pieces of information that make a post at least appealing to look at. But some days I just neglect it…
Correction
Some weeks I neglect it.
I know there are a ton of other things that I do with my time that if I just cut an hour a day out, I could literally write about anything.
This blog isn’t just about how to become a professional amateur, this is a blog about how I became and what I’m doing to stay a professional amateur.
That means I can literally write for 30 minutes every day on what I did or what I’m planning or what I dream of doing in photography, and it could be a post.
I know that Consistency is Key.
It’s time to get consistent.
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