I Apologize, please forgive

There are certain blogs that I check religiously.

At least once a week I go and see what’s going on with the author, maybe checkout the comments, and always get a lot of valuable information from them.

This is my goal for this blog. I want to be that for the webcomic creators, digital story tellers, and independent artists looking to make a living utilizing the internet. For those that are in any of those categories, I feel I have let you down.

My summer posts:

• June 06 – My Interview with And He Drew (podcast)
• June 12 – Talking about adding more videos
• June 18 – Superhero Info Graph
• June 19 – How to Choose What Project To Work On and Tips to Finishing that Project (podcast)
• July 08 – The Perfect Morning
• July 26 – Trying to get my act together

These are all the posts I published this summer.

Besides the two podcasts episodes (8 & 9), the other posts were not really written to help you (my readers). Instead they were self indulgent.

For that I apologize.

Why

The reason for my sudden drop off in blogging is for two important reasons.

1. I make my living as a balloon twister and magician. The summer months are very busy for my industry.
2. I am experimenting with Niche Sites as a way to fund my comic books and film projects. Doing this takes up a lot of my time now, but should give me a lot of freedom in the near future.

Conclusion

This is my promise to start writing regularly.

Trying to get my act together

Another Website I am Working On.

This is an update on where I am personally in the progress of my various projects. I stayed up all night with the goal of wrapping my head around my future, plans for this website, and if I am happy with where I am in my life.

The end result has become a feeling of clarity and exhaustion (due to staying up all night).

The reality is that I have accomplished a lot in my life time. I am not famous or rich (or even financial comfortable). I do, however, have the pleasure of saying I have done some fun, crazy, exciting things with my life and hope to continue with that trend.

The future

My goal this year is to find a way to fund my future adventures, art projects, and family life.

My plan is to create a website in a specific topic that seems as though I should be able to build up a constant stream of visitors and make money with ads. At the same time I am creating a separate website chronicling this business experiment.

You can visit this website at www.nichesitejournal.com.

What this means for Jason Loves Life

While I plan to share sporadically what is going on with this money making venture on this site, but my main focus for this site will remain to be on the business side of web comics with some articles on film making, animation, and my personal life.

My goal for the next few months is to post a minimum of once per week on this site. The new sites I am working on will take up a large chunk of my daily schedule, but I have finished up all my freelance work and my performance schedule will be slowing down after the month of August leaving me more time to write, create comics, and enjoy life.

The Perfect Morning

I’m normally a physical concentration of anxiety, fear, and stress just trying to get a million things done. This morning, however, things seem to be snapping into place. Watching my seven months old son drinking his bottle and listening to Elizabeth Mitchell on the iPod, I feel at peace.

It is more than the music causing this tranquility. It is that everything is falling in line. All on my “To Do” List is getting done while still having time to enjoy the company of my child.

Without sounding too pretentious or boasting I want to make the statement that

Working from home Rocks!

King of the Nerds… I lost!

I wanted to keep everyone updated on my King of the Nerd’s statues. They have dropped down to just the top 10 in the voting. I was number 13 so I didn’t make the cut. I have included my video with this post in case you wanted to see it and learn a little more about me.

Help the podcast’s rankings

Hello Friends!

I want to thank everyone for the great feedback, suggestions, and encouragement around the new podcast. The response has been AMAZING!

A podcast on the business side of WebComics

How you can help us with i-tunes ranking

If you go to the podcast section of i-tunes and search “Jason Loves Life”, click on the podcast, and then subscribe, rate (5 stars is always great), and leave a text review, it will help us get ranked really high in i-tunes.

I figure many of you didn’t realize how i-tunes works or that doing this would help our ranking. Instead of leaving it up to chance, we decided to reach out to you.

We want to thank you again for the help and if you need anything from us, feel free to ask.

If you can’t find the podcast, you can try this link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jason-loves-life-podcast-helping/id638018312

then click on “view in itunes”.

Thanks for the help and all the support!

Your friends,
Leah, Jason, Everett, and Yada Love

Podcasting Web Comics

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Microphone is set!

I’ve had the “podcasting” page up on this blog in November of 2012 with “COMING SOON” at the top. I originally put it up there because I assumed it would motivate me to get working on putting out a podcast.

Yet here I am, 5 months later without a podcast up.

Tonight I am playing around with the equipment and figured I should try a short recording to get familiar with the software.

Here it is:

Sorry if the audio is more mundane then you expected. The plan wasn’t to be clever, but to push forward with my plans to create a podcast.

I am very excited to start the podcast and hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making this first quick audio.

A Rant on Distribution of Wealth in America

I’m not sure how I end up finding these random videos.

I guess this is a sign that I am spending too much time surfing the internet instead of working on my comic book like a good little WebComic creator, but I found this video.

It could be considered political but doesn’t have any real call to action or push an agenda. It is more informative than political.

Warning! This is not directly related to making webComics, so feel free to skip reading this article and come back for tomorrows article on something cool related to something cool related to webcomic creating.