Future of this Blog

This blog started as a project for my E-commerce class. I have actually enjoyed making it, though, and so I do plan to keep this site up and running, and to keep adding to it. However, the frequency of my posts is going to be severely reduced. During the period of time in which I have been running this blog so far, I have been posting about twice a week. For the time being, I am incapable of continuing to write that many posts, especially at their current level of involvement. Each post usually takes me about a day to write, so if I were to keep up my current post level, that's a week out of each month that I can't devote to my costumes. As I want to be a professional costumer, and not a professional blogger, that is unacceptable to me.

If I wanted to keep up that posting schedule, I would have to decrease the length and/or quality of my posts. That is not something I want to do. I know that for me, personally, I would rather read a smaller number of longer, higher quality posts than a lot of short, "look at this YouTube video I found" posts. Since this is my blog, I am going to run it according to my preferences. This means that I will be posting no more than once a week, and likely only once every other week. It will just kind of depend on what is going on in my life that month.

While I do kind of wish it was practical for me to keep up a good schedule, I know it's not. The only reason it's practical for me to keep updating at all is that I'm graduating this month. Between work, friends, my costumes, and the company I'm involved in, much of my time is going to continue to be spoken for even after I graduate. I don't see the time demands letting up any time soon, either. I don't know that I can say that I'd even want them to, honestly. I like where I am in life right now, and where I'm headed. I can definitely see myself consistently  posting once or even twice a week in the future, but for now, it will just have to stay 2-4 times a month.

My next post might not be until after Anime Oasis. While there are one or two posts I would like to do before then, I have a lot of costume work that needs to get done before AO. While I don't really many post topics in mind for the future, I'll probably do a recap of the convention and possibly a photo blog, similar to what I did for Sakura Con. I'll also do posts about every new costume and major prop (minor props will be included with their respective costumes) I do from this point out, as well as posts on major revisions I do to my current costumes and props. Other possibilities for the future include interviews with local cosplayer/costumers, and retrospectives on other conventions I've been to (Anime Banzai in particular holds a significance to me that almost rivals that of Anime Oasis). At some point, I would also like to have a page that showcases all of my costumes.

I hope that you'll continue to stick with me and support my work, even with the reduced content output.

Thank you.