Another combined catchup post for the entire weekend! It was a busy and unstructured weekend, and by the end of it I was feeling very burned out on my Groundhog Day Resolution Goals. There are so MANY of them, and they will all take so long! That said, I do feel like I am making pretty good progress, albeit not in a predictable way. (more…)

Thursday I’m posting TWO updates for today and Friday, because they are linked together:

• I thought it would be fun to try recording myself writing at Starbucks as I worked on a “Hi I’m Dave” video script.
• This 30-minute session ended with a 10 hour editing binge afterwards.

The end result: a rather odd intro video that is now on my Patreon Page. I think it’s way too long, though it does do an OK job showing how I work. I had no idea I made so many funny faces when I was writing. (more…)

Wow, I’m running a day behind on these posts! Last night was another long one as I attempted to do my first “long screencast” test using Camtasia Studio to record a tour of my housing plot in Wildstar, an online video game in which I have been building a hay farm to relax. So I had to start it all over again! (more…)

Several months ago I got an email from a reader inquiring whether I had a donation page. I didn’t, but I told him that I was thinking of setting up a Patreon page, which is a cool website where creative types of all stripes can be supported by people (patrons) who like their work through PayPal micropayments. I support several creatives on Patreon myself, people whose work I find delightful and perhaps under-recognized. My own Patreon page has been in limbo since Patreon itself launched, because I wasn’t sure exactly what I would do or what I would offer.

Yesterday, the same reader got back to me, gleefully reporting that he had found my Patreon page and signed-up as a patron! This was surprising to me for (1) the zeal of the reader and (2) my Patreon page is not published, which I assumed meant it wasn’t accessible. I guess what happened is that since I’m already a patron supporting other artist, my actual Patreon user profile page is visible AND apparently it shows the placeholder information I had put there. Oops. I thanked the reader and then steeled myself to finally update the page to make it Sunday’s official business-related Groundhog Day Resolutions goal.

The page is located at http://patreon.com/daveseah if you’d like to check it out. I spent 8 hours figuring out what to say, but fortunately I had yesterday’s epiphany to draw from. I’m REALLY HAPPY with the way I deconstructed what it is I do.

So check it out and let me know what you think! I still have to make the intro video that describes what I do, but I’ll have to tackle that later this week. In the meantime, my Patreon page is officially “soft launched”!

Stuff Learned and GHDR Points Earned

This is a major creative business goal, so that’s worth 10 points!

PTS	DESCRIPTION
10	Creative Business Enabler!
5	Packaged previous work!
2	Posted words on this website!

So…17 points. It feels like it should be more, but I am too lazy (and it’s 745AM after staying up all night trying to push through this), so I am going to just call it here and take a long nap.

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