Writing. I'm like a third of the way done on my rewrites of a script.. But I just got back in the groove of making music and it's honestly been super fun! I haven't really been in the mood to write anything either! I have no intention of stopping the music stuff anytime soon but this damn story's been waiting on me for what's eventually gonna end up being 3 years and I wanna finish it so badly too but guitar go brrrrr
I need to finish this damn historical fiction chapter, and somehow the research for it is turning into procrastination... I keep researching like 3 things for every sentence I write, which is probably not necessary. I really just need to focus on the action and not obsess over ever detail being historically accurate, at least for now.
As seems to be a common trend already, my comic itself
A blend of things has started dropping it lower and lower down my priority list.
From the episodes getting longer and taking more time to make,
To my not being totally satisfied with the story and its content (since it was a D&D campaign it was technically a collaborative storytelling experience, but on top of that I wasn't the DM either so I had very little control over the actual plot lol),
To the comic itself being not as well received as I had hoped on either Tapas or Webtoons.
All of these things combined have led me to taking like 1-2 months on an episode to checks calendar, going on 4 months for the current one I work on it 2-4 hours a week during my art streams but haven't found motivation to do any work outside of that for the last few months lol. As-is I've been at least loosely considering putting it on some sort of hiatus after I run out of episodes in a few months here and deciding whether I want to put my writing cap back on to work on a new original story, or try to power through somehow
BUT in the meantime I've been re-indulging in some other art and my gaming hobby which has been a lot of fun too I just got done doing this large commission wave for the PAX Pokemon League, drawing all of their gym leaders (30 characters) for a recent event they held. I've been playing a variety of games on my Nintendo Switch, and a friend that I play D&D with got me re-addicted to Final Fantasy 14. So I've been doing a lot of that instead of comic-drawing of late
Nahh this is like my 4th comic project since getting back into drawing/comics in 2018 (although 2nd long-term project, 2 of those took like less than a month each), but it is the first adaptation of someone else's story, so to speak It's certainly not been a negative experience but I've definitely found that I'm less motivated to power through than on stories/projects that are all my own. In this case I'm working with an ensemble cast of 5, but only know full details for 1 character, and most of the plot elements and all of the side characters were fully outside of my control and just... yeah xD
But yeahh, the first anniversary of working on the project is coming up at the end of this month, with the story only ~1/4 of the way complete and the pace slowing down more and more... so I'm definitely leaning towards cutting the losses, or at least putting it on an indefinite hiatus until I feel more motivated to work on it and putting the creative energies towards something I'm more excited about
Just now wrapping up episode 8 out of 30-something and it would just take forever to finish as-is lmao.
Oh god, student reports. I hate them. I hate writing them. Time-wasting, useless little three-sentence fragments which are too short to communicate anything of actual value, and I get told off if I make them too long.
I can write more useful, effective ones if I'm allowed to use, say, five sentences instead of three. But no, one of the schools I'm based in is super picky, and it's the one where I have the most students.
I'm also a week late with them because I get my weeks muddled up.
I didn´t know the word procrastinating before I joined the online comic community.
I´m a pro procrastinator for 6 years now, maybe I´m getting a lot of things done but it never
feels like that. I started playing red dead redemption online and I´m already addicted to it,
but I manage to only play it after 8pm which is good, it´s lunch time now and I´m thinking
about playing one little round of rdr online
I was procrastinating on the cover artwork of my band´s album, but it turned out I just
didn´t have the needed inspiration/energy, so I gave that to someone else now and I
feel a relief. That´s also something a creative person has to learn, you can´t do everything
yourself. I´m a musician, songwriter, I play upright bass, electric & acoustic guitar, I sing
and I play blues harp, I´m a sound engineer with a studio, which means I record, mix
and master the bands I´m playing in, I illustrate, draw comics and that also means that
I have to do everything concerning logos, poster, flyers, artwork for the bands I´m playing
in (which are 3), it´s all a bit mad
As if things weren't already bad enough..
So yesterday, on a whim, I thought "Hey, there's an upcoming game jam and it's never been easier to find a team to work with apparently.." Naturally, I message a whole bunch of dev teams to try and become a part of this lmao let's see if I can be a full on composer and sound designer next week