Furry Moon Creations

Advice is everywhere. Many people love to give it, few really care to receive it. That's only partly true; people don't like advice they don't ask for or about things they understand well (or pretend they understand well). At MFF I did a lot of listening, and sometimes listening turned into talking unexpectedly.

On one panel, I helped some artists understand what it is a business mind looks for and what some major turnoffs were,like a shoddy sketch being the first piece of art I saw, or a binder held together with duct tape. Lack of acknowledgement from working artist when I showed up to look over their work made me feel they were too busy for any more work. One artist actually begged me to buy some of her art, while she was sweet I tend to be a bit callous when it comes to company dollars. Had I been there for vacation, my heart would have melted a bit and I might have purchased something small to help her out.

Well I have a lot of emails to send out and a mountain of backlogged papers to sift through, so I'll wrap this up with a piece of email correspondence with another attendee. This is the kind of feedback I like, when someone lets me know what they want but also understand that some things can't be adjusted on a whim.

I have to let people know for legal reasons that I don't, in fact can't, read every last email that comes in or will ever come in about Moonshards or other FMC products. In the event you send me something and you see that something happen, it is most likely it was planned from long ago or it was from information gathered from a large number of people's views of what they like or dislike. In short, if people start claiming I took their ideas I will have to stop listening to their ideas without them signing a waiver. I'm an idealist, I'd like to be able to make most people happy most of the time. I am a realist I have others that I listen to that keep me grounded in the realities of the modern world.