I was going through the people I follow last night and building my "recruit" list and you were definitely on it. It's been a while since I've seen anything about your comic concept, but that's certainly what originally caught my eye and got me following your blog!
There's a few comic related communities floating around already, but I wanted to carve out my own niche. I registered the community maybe a week or two ago and just started posting and prepping over the last couple days.
I'll try to offer up an issue of Write Now! magazine for the next promo, I think you'd enjoy those!
Thanks for the shout out @bashadow. Don't know how your targets will feel about it, but I sure don't mind your help recruiting! 😄
I like the community concept, I want to see them live and thrive on hive. On Steem they kind of died, I'm one of the content consumers, Glen and I comment back and forth a bit so I was pretty sure he would not mind. I am hoping the community leaders will keep their places clean of stuff, I know a lot of people like posting in the ocd and gems communities for the rewards, but you get every thing in those one stop shops for all, I like the mom and pop and boutique stores/communities and they are the ones that will carry the heart and soul of Hive Block Chain, they will lead us to the new frontiers of the internet.
I'm with you there. Those "catch all" curation communities completely negate the content discovery & shared interest aspects that communities are meant to enable. I debated how narrow or broad to make the focus of my own community... and this is what I'm coming up with so far! Once I've established a bare minimum of activity from existing Hive users, the real push will be to recruit from outside.
Hey, @bryan-imhoff.
I'm happy to remembered for anything at this point. :)
I haven't done a whole lot creatively lately because of all of the STEEM mess, and now things on HIVE have intensified a little, too. I'm not sure what it is other than the potential to increase the value of our holdings, or being stir crazy under global uncertainty—perhaps both—but it has a tendency to sap the creative juices, which I didn't think was possible.
I've also been wondering a lot lately whether HIVE, certainly as currently constituted, is a sustainable place for any serious creative enterprise. Blogging is one thing. Trying to sell creative wares here is another. I suppose HIVE could just be the announcement hub, rather than the delivery system, but I was kind of hoping to finally find a place where I didn't need yet another step to get my stories in front of eyes.
And, since we're all still primarily living in the world of fiat, we're basically beholden to, or enslaved by, this whole idea of HIVE price, and eventually going to the moon with it. There are already forces at work here, popping up here and there, who want to change the fundamental structure of what HIVE is, or maybe better put, take it to where it is to what I would say is probably level five or six and more like 5-10 years down the road, but do it now.
So, I don't feel like I want to just go putting up my best work. Which means, I build in a level of mediocrity to a degree, and I'm afraid that consumers tend to pick up on things like that.
I certainly understand the creative drain, and the apprehension around the future of Hive. For me though, Hive is still nothing but positives. Of course, the biggest problem for a creative is that this is not where the people are! So time spent here is time potentially not spent on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. However, I was never very active on any of those! Only Hive has stuck with me. The ownership aspect really does strike a chord, so it's not an either/or prospect for me. If I wasn't on Hive, I probably wouldn't be active on any social media.
Absolutely I think the main use case right now is simply sharing the journey of creating, through blogging in various forms. Along the way you'll hopefully accrue a bit of funds for the project and a few dedicated fans as well. I've backed about a half dozen crowdfunding campaigns on mainstream platforms (KickStarter, Indiegogo) based off of interacting with the folks on Hive, and when I hopefully go to launch my own project, I do believe "Hiveans" will be a tentpole of my support, and that I'll be able to sell some Hive tokens to assist my funding.
I'm always torn myself on just how much material and product to release online. @jasonbrubaker has a really interesting business model that he does well at. All his comics are available freely online, yet he's still managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for printed editions that folks want on their bookshelves. He wrote a book, Unnatural Talent: Creating, Printing and Selling Your Comic in the Digital Age which I really enjoyed... and yes, he dabbled in Steem back in the day! Once I get things up and running more, I'll certainly be reaching out to him to see if he wants to give Hive another look! I sure hope he does. But I digress, the point is he just gets the work out there.
I believe we will see advances in sharing work via Hive too. It's really the simplest thing so far, but I'm excited about @jrej developing Inkito. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out! I've been slowly going through and adding my old stuff to help populate the site as he tests it, simply by re-tagging posts that I put on Steem years ago.
It really is an exciting time. Sorry for the whirlwind mini-rant... most of these being topics I want to cover in upcoming full posts!
Thanks for mentioning me in there. I truly see a lot of potential for comics and story telling in general in here. People are chasing attention on social media, never getting a dime, Hive changes that.
About @jasonbrubaker, I will definitely come back to him about Hive once it has grown a little more. I followed him since he made podcasts on MakingComics.com. His business model seem to work quite well for him, I've been posting my comics online for free since then but I am not as talented as he is. He's been using a combination of Patreon and youtube lately which is pretty frequent nowadays.
Anyway, I'm excited about your comic creating community. I'm sure we can find ways to collaborate going forward. I'll happily post the next page of my comic around here! ;-)