Happy Turkey Day! Before the tryptophan sets in, sink your teeth into this gem from 2012, when I discussed a strategy for improving your writing.

I learned about this essay on creativity and business by Linds Redding from David Malki’s Twitter feed. In it, Redding relates his experience of working in an ad agency pre-Internet. He describes a process that mirrors closely the advice we present here repeatedly. He calls it The Overnight Test. In short, he and his writing partners would perform a massive brain-dump on the topic — throwing every idea… every kernel of an idea… onto paper. Nothing was ruled out. Nothing was judged. And almost everything as posted on the wall by the end of the night. The next mroning, they’d come in and start sorting through the ones that worked and the ones that didn’t. And they would critique one another — respectfully and honestly.

Read the entire post and comment there.

Today’s Archive Dive comes from Nov. 18, 2013, and it discusses my thoughts on a useful strategy for makers of longform webcomics.

Last month I  shared a Web-publishing approach that uses recent gains in digital-download accessibility to optimize the business of longform comics. If you’re a longform comics creator, I really want to encourage you to read through it — as well as the comments, in which a lot of pertinent points are made.

Today, I want to add an element to that: The landing page. Specifically this: I think the main page of your site should be set up as a landing page, introducing readers to the central concept of the comic and directing traffic to several potential directions including: The latest update, the first update in the series, the first update in each of the subsequent chapters, the first update in the current chapter, etc.

Read the entire post and comment there.