Opplopolis 18: 11-12
This scene is getting pretty abstract.
This is week 30 of the 60 week update schedule — so halfway through the return of Opplopolis. I have plenty of thoughts about the project in general, a lot of which should be saved for a postmortem, but I thought I’d take the opportunity to talk about where things stand right now.
So far, we have not missed an update. That’s good, of course, but it’s been hard. I began with a five week buffer, knowing that I would need it to attend a number of week-long art-fairs I had planned during the run. That buffer is gone at this point — I’m writing this on Thursday morning, having finished these pages on Wednesday for the Friday deadline. And this was an easy week. Last week I had to draw the pages while scrambling to get things packed and ready for a fair over the weekend. You can tell when I’m rushing because the characters go strangely off-model. Or they go wobbly. I don’t like it, but I’ve committed to turning in the updates on time, so that’s what you get.
Fortunately, I have a little more time at the moment, and in addition to building up my safety-net again, there are things I want to do with the website. That said, there are two things I understand now in middle-age that I didn’t when I started bohemiandrive back in the day. One: however long you think something is going to take, it will take longer than that. This is true even if you account for it; which is to say it will take longer than the longer time that you budgeted to account for it taking longer than you expected. And two: always under-promise and over-deliver. Which is why I’m not announcing anything until it happens.
I’ve noticed that every now and then Amazon sends me $1.45 meaning that somebody bought a book, which is nice. I don’t promote the books here, but the two NPWIL volumes are pretty nice-looking and I stand by them. The Opplopolis book is good if you prefer to read the first 10 chapters on paper, but I hesitate to recommend buying it as I’m not sure there will be a volume two to go with it. I’m not making promises, at any rate.
That’s it for now.
Boy, these are weird pages.