Have you ever gone on hiatus?

Taiwanimation · Post by **Taiwanimation** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:33 pm

This thing called class is a big doozer. I do finish story arcs though, and sometimes I actually backfill in the missed dates.

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:55 pm

In the last 3 months, my beautiful 21 day buffer shrank to 18 days.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:32 pm

As one of your 300 readers I can say I won't mind at all if you go on hiatus. But then again I'm a very patient man. Maybe you can even get people to do guest strips and stuff.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:33 pm

The only hard part about going on hiatus is letting all of the readers who've stopped visiting know you're back. When EOI came back it didn't take very long to get back to where it was before I took a break. Old readers were glad to come back once they knew.

Dan Nicholls · Post by **Dan Nicholls** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:11 pm

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erf.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:04 pm

No hiatuses for me. I know if I got out of the swing of updating it'd be hard to come back. Sure, I like the satisfaction of drawing my comic, but the pull of lazyness is strong. A lot of times I really have to force myself to get working on it.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:11 pm

I suppose my first comic, Spork, has to be considered "on hiatus", since it's been stopped in the middle of a storyline for two years now...(I've actually done a Spork animated short and 6 new comic pages since then, but I haven't gotten around to putting them up on the site...)

On the other hand, I've always had at least one comic updating continuously on my site, and I've never missed more than one update in a row. I think I have a pretty good record after three years of comicking.

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:14 pm

This is MY story. ::snickers::

Heh. That was a stupid line. Didn't make any sense until 6/8's of the way through it. Bender is an awesome voice actor though. And SC, I'd be fine with you doing it, just make sure to post a panty shot every once in a while.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:21 pm

RPin wrote:Hiatus is evil. You should set to a more realistic schedule if you know these things are going to happen, Soap.

Constancy is more important than frequency. You should always give something for your readers to come back. If you know you can't keep up, do like me and settle for weekly updates.

If I just uploaded everything to the day after they are finished, I'd have gone into hiatus more than you did. I'd even be on hiatus right now.

Hush you, there's a hiatus between every two of your updates!

Me? Never. I once said that I had technical dificulties and stopped updating for a week but that's not much of a hiatus.
Maybe there's an explanation why I'm not popular?

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:23 pm

ALL the popular comics are doing it! C'mon, we'll ALL hiatus! Our readership will skyrocket!

Or not, y'know, whatever. But yeah, Soap, do what you need to do. Comics are fun, and I love readin' Deity Permit, but school and real life have to sorta come first. Or at least a really close second.

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:40 pm

Okie wrote:In the last 3 months, my beautiful 21 day buffer shrank to 18 days.

You need to work harder!!

I mean, last time I updated, my buffer increased from thirty seconds to five minutes!
I'm so proud of myself.

Fi13r · Post by **Fi13r** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:42 pm

Sortelli wrote:The only hard part about going on hiatus is letting all of the readers who've stopped visiting know you're back. When EOI came back it didn't take very long to get back to where it was before I took a break. Old readers were glad to come back once they knew.

No fair.

People DO visit my comic when updating is sporadic and without frequency, but then I stick to my guns and update regularly, they don't! What does THAT mean?!

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:14 am

fi13r wrote:No fair.

People DO visit my comic when updating is sporadic and without frequency, but then I stick to my guns and update regularly, they don't! What does THAT mean?!

[gollum voice]No one likes you.[/gollum voice]

Just to be evil, mind you.

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:38 am

i've had two lengthy hiatuses (hiatii?).
the first time i attempted loxie and zoot (1998) i lasted 9 pages before i didn't know what to do with the story and just abandoned the whole thing (took the site down and everything... this was pre-keen). that lasted until mid-2000.
the second attempt was much more successul... i uploaded something like 140 pages over two years with only one update missed due to illness (four wisdom teeth being extracted!). i kinda got the shits with it all and the excess bandwidth charges (again, pre-keen) were sending me broke (although i did score nicely from paypal donations at the time!). i went on hiatus early 2002 - came over to keen mid-2003 and started repeating the first 120 pages so the hiatus can only be considered to have officially ended once those pages were up and i started new stuff (ie a few months ago). it was good to take those breaks - even if i might have lost a lot of original readers... it helped me to refocus and reevaluate where i was going with it all.
i agree with RPin that maybe changing your update schedule would help. good luck whatever you do!

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:45 am

What's this I keep hearing about some kind of BUFFER???

Doesn't everyone else draw their strips the night before they're due in a fit of exausted panic, missing the deadline and having to always do a manual update?

Anywho, I'm backed up about a week. I've been excited and working on other stuff related to the comic.

One thing I'm trying to do to stay on track is to keep the comics dated as they were supposed to come out. This way I can tell how far behind I am, and walk the earth in constant dread of never catching up.

I SHOULD have declared a hiatus.

Should have...

At least I got over the hurdle of introducing my robot tonight. Been trying to since the first week. Now to build the real version. I could use one.

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:55 am

mcDuffies wrote:Hush you, there's a hiatus between every two of your updates!
Me? Never. I once said that I had technical dificulties and stopped updating for a week but that's not much of a hiatus.
Maybe there's an explanation why I'm not popular?

My comic is weekly by default. When I put a comic on Thursdays I'm giving my readers a bonus.!

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:14 am

Not yet. But I will when Season 1 of Jamie and Nick ends.

Gage Kronos · Post by **Gage Kronos** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 5:43 am

Sortelli wrote:The only hard part about going on hiatus is letting all of the readers who've stopped visiting know you're back. When EOI came back it didn't take very long to get back to where it was before I took a break. Old readers were glad to come back once they knew.

Heh...got that right. Although I didn't find out that it was back until after New Year's.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:00 am

And with this post my buffer increases from minus ten days, 19 hours and 53 minutes, to minus 10 days, 19 hours and 54 minutes!
Oh wait, that's _minus_ so it actually decreases, and I'm on hiatus.

I feared that moment for over two years.

Terotrous wrote:No hiatuses for me. I know if I got out of the swing of updating it'd be hard to come back. Sure, I like the satisfaction of drawing my comic, but the pull of lazyness is strong. A lot of times I really have to force myself to get working on it.

Yeah, same here, regular updates are good.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:25 pm

*cough* Yes. Last summer when I went on a dig in Chile. Granted, I was certain that I was coming back, but there were five weeks of guest comics. I'd planned ahead enough to have the comic update regularly on Wednesdays, though.