I’ve had a nice little ‘break’ and will be recommence posting stuff to the School of Puppetry website. Although technically I’ve continued working on other things behind the scenes, I definitely needed a break from SOP in order to refresh and rejuvenate. Amongst the ongoing work migrating articles from Puppets in Melbourne, and adding new content, I will be endeavouring to do one other thing:

SOP had lost its way a little. In between the chaos of moving stuff from one website to another, and the (over) attentiveness to website visitor stats and their interests, I’ve moved away significantly from my original aim: to provide content and information to those interested in doing puppetry professionally. As such, there will be new content over time which will focus more on topics professionals want to know about. Like copyrights, making your own patterns from scratch (and not just for muppet-type puppets either), scriptwriting, promoting your business, etc. This will be something akin to the Beginners Guide, except obviously, it will be an Advanced Guide to Puppetry. Mainly, nothing major is going to change, it’s just a decision by me as to what new content will be forthcoming. 

The other thing is that I will be moving, as planned, to a less hectic posting schedule. I will no longer attempt to update the site 5 times a week (mainly a way to get as much migrated as possible, but it’s a year after starting the process and no end is in sight). I will likely move to no more than two posts a week; old or new content on a Moday, with the potential for new links to be added on a Friday. This is good for so many reasons: it gives me more time to work on the content and research it thoroughly without worrying about deadlines; it’s less stressful for me; and it means I can give more attention to other things that I’ve been neglecting. 

As always, a reminder: old content that gets migrated over doesn’t appear in RSS feeds, so if you want to keep up to date with the old along with the new, you can check out School of Puppetry at Facebook or Twitter. Or just follow along anyway, as there’s often updates and little tidbits or puppetry goodies that don’t get posted here at the site.