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Reduced Update Schedule

Posted on by Timothy Dempsey

Greetings!

Let’s remove all doubt and make it offiical: for the time being, my comic will only update twice a week – Monday and Friday.

There is a huge re-launch I’ve been concentrating on at my new job, and coupled with other aspects of My Life it is a necessary, temporary tactic to continue producing the strips to the quality that I try to maintain while juggling it all.

Thanks for hanging in there. I owe a bunch of you “thanks” for continuing to RT my tweets when I update. You know who you are, I’ve been negligent at social media since going back to work but I’ll try to do better over in the Twitterverse.

Regards – see you Friday!

– Tim

“My Life In The Trenches” Turns One Year Old Today!

Posted on by Timothy Dempsey

I had a pretty lofty goal of where I wanted it to be at this point. I started with the mindset that:

“if, at the one-year mark I miss my goal of x monthly visits – I’ll pull the plug.”

I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.

I’m still having fun with it (and gaining some traction) so I’m considering some changes:

  • More blogging on days that are not “new comic” days. I’ll try to be diligent about writing posts that I think might be of interest. Some will be shout-outs to other comics, others might be movie and TV reviews, graphics tips and techniques, etc. These fall under the “Dempsey Doodles” moniker of the site. This way, free time can come here to die Monday-Friday.
  • The schedule for new comics will increase to three days a week, starting in October 2010. I have flip-flopped on this before committing it in writing but the conventional wisdom in the webcomics community supports that more traffic will follow with more new strips. Looks like Monday/Wednesday/Friday.

Thanks for a first year that didn’t suck, I truly appreciate all the comments and retweets. Here’s to the next year of My Life In The Trenches. Heaven help us.

Regards,
-T.A.D.