What to do when you've outgrown your own story

@lartianmartian1 Tors
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:57:08 +0000

@lartianmartian1 wrote:

I just did this very thing a few short months ago. I outgrew the college-based comic I started in (you guessed it!) college, and now that I'm a thirty-something I aged up those exact same characters and forced them to "adult". It was the best decision I've made creatively thus far.

I had nothing noteworthy to add to the college webcomic subgenre anyway, aside from my own wackadoo style. Plus, the internet has Dumbing of Age. And it's still pretty good, I guess??

I've discarded countless other ideas over the years, and I don't feel sad about it. I'm trying to make the most of my time by actually enjoying what I do. I'm not worried about what lies ahead, because there is little point in it. Of course a project of this scale is years in the making, so what?! And my anxiety over such things has held me back long enough, I just wanna draw, dammit.

(Lol, sorry for the angry emoji, I just feel strongly about this sort of thing. Also, 24 is not old, you stop that right now.)