I think I'm going to take a little break from posting mega-sets and focus on normal-length ones for at least a few months, though I do have two more of these coming up (at least one of which will be significantly longer than this set, believe it or not). If you have any feedback on the way I've done this set (alternating between individual visits and normal-length long sets), I'd love to hear it, especially since I'm not sure how I'm going to do the other two I have in my backlog (which don't lend themselves to being broken up as cleanly as this one). All in all, while I'm glad to have been able to document this store so thoroughly, and I'm sad to see it go... I'm not sad to be done with posting about it for the near future! 🙂
I thought the alternating format worked well for this series. Of course, your overall upload format lends well to that, given how you post daily anyway. It might be a different story for a photostream like mine where full albums take a lot longer to get through! Definitely understand the feeling of being glad to be done with the set too, haha. I think I'm going to try and at least halve all of my future really long sets, though in truth I'm tinkering around with my overall upload format entirely. So much content, yet I fear ultimately that I'll be even further behind... All of that to say, I think you're in pretty good shape if you stick with this format! Even if you end up breaking the sets less cleanly, I'm sure it would still work out fine.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback! I certainly understand feeling far behind... I "temporarily" doubled my pace of uploads last year, but even with that, I'm already back to a 3-year backlog at this point, and I can't really speed up my uploads any further without making some sort of major change to the way I do things. (I do like doing daily posts, by the way... it means I can just have a manageable bit of work every day rather than a large chunk all at once.)
DeleteYou're welcome! Ha, I haven't calculated the size of my backlog in years before, but I think I'd be afraid to know the answer XD But yeah, definitely in the same boat as you... no way I can speed up content without major changes. And on the topic of daily posts, I have considered them before, and I do like the idea of the work being somewhat more manageable that way. But ever since I started my job I have less and less motivation to get on my computer after work, since it doesn't sound very appealing to go home and sit at a desk staring at a computer screen when that's all I've been doing for the past 8+ hours! Right now I'm often writing full weeks' worth of descriptions at once, and only getting on my laptop during the week to actually upload them. Hence why my content will definitely slow down in the new year, but hopefully not too awful much, as that also just makes it take that much longer to go through my already lengthy photosets. The sad thing is, it's not the hobby I'm losing the motivation for, it's simply the sitting at the desk staring at a computer part...
DeleteYeah, I totally get that feeling. It's even worse for me working from home, since I'm sitting in the same room and staring at the same screen during and after work! It helps that my job isn't 100% computer work, but still.
DeleteI was also thinking the other day about how when I find something I enjoy and start doing it on a regular basis, it starts to feel less like something I enjoy and more like something I have to do. That's a big part of why I've started taking periodic breaks from posting for a week or so at a time, generally when I go on vacation. Visiting stores is always a lot of fun, but I can sometimes get tired of actually writing and posting about them.
Yikes -- yeah, that would get really tiring, really fast!
DeleteYou've hit the nail on the head -- it's good to know I'm not the only one who treats things that way. I still haven't gotten quite to where I feel comfortable taking prolonged breaks from it, but I'm hoping the changes I'll be making will help me get a little more of a breather, or short break, between each upload. I know I could always adopt a "just upload whenever" mentality, but I fear I would realistically just begin to abandon uploads altogether at that point, because I'll never feel like writing the descriptions. Obviously it's not a good feeling to feel obligated to do it, but I like the hobby enough to where I know I have to be diligent in sticking to it, if that makes sense. There's gotta be a happy medium in there somewhere.
I'm particularly interested to see how that "just upload whenever" mentality works out for my blog posts, now that I've made the decision to switch to it over there. I've been discussing this with AFB too, and he says that's a large part of why he doesn't post on MFR that often these days...
And ha -- I almost think I like the writing and posting more than I do the visiting the stores, sometimes! It varies, of course, but I'm always a little paranoid while I'm inside the buildings...
And it's good to know that it's not just me, too 🙂
DeletePersonally, I've found that having a regular schedule with occasional breaks has helped me a lot compared to back when I used to do one big post per week, but I know everyone has different feelings about these things. I'm the same way -- if I decided to just post when I felt like it, I probably never would, and the work needed to get going again would feel rather daunting.
Interesting to hear that! To me, writing the descriptions kind of feels like busywork, even if it's important. Maybe I'm just getting a bit complacent about visiting stores, though, since it's been a long time since anything has happened.