Why do you keep going?

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

Now you stand before a heavenly judge, and the judge questions you: "Knowing all that, why did you continue working on it?"

Answer: "Because trusted you guys to see that the people who needed to see it, saw it."

EDIT: Think about it from the other end of the pipe... why did nameless, faceless, fameless and forgotten people in generations before us do what they did? I guess you either carry on with your life or you don't. If you don't you kinda set up a self-fulfilling prophesy that you'll remain unremembered, even by historians.

[Oto_Kouda]

Honestly, I think I'm just addicted to creating stuff.

[carloswebcomic]

Don't ask me. I've just given up on my comic.
Not sure if I'll ever do another comic again, or do art for that matter.

[dominioncomix]

Because nothing matters besides being good to the people around you, so i may as well spend what little time i have on earth drawing fun stuff.

[darthmongoose]

Well, according to my parents, I started drawing before I started walking or talking. For me, drawing is just a thing my body does, like breathing. I'd never stop drawing, and I don't even show everything I draw to people as it is. I don't just draw for other people at the end of the day, and when I was working full time as an illustrator, only drawing things other people asked for for money, I was pretty miserable. Stopping drawing would be like stopping talking for me, nobody only speaks when people are paying them, right?

The drawings I do for money aren't generally as emotionally satisfying as telling my own stories. Obviously my dream would be to draw my own story for money, but that's a big goal that takes a lot of groundwork so I have to be patient as I get all that done ready to pitch. In the meantime, I have steady audience growth and the opportunity to learn from mistakes while I have fun writing and drawing a comic I really care about while my part time job pays the bills. I'm just like.... do I need to stop? No? Okay I might as well continue.

[monotone_ink]

See you in the next update

[carloswebcomic]

See you in the next update

???
What do you mean?

[lomcia]

"Knowing all that, why did you continue working on it?"

Because I love it. It's so simple.

[AwesomeSoFar]

honestly, getting recognized and famous is so hard to come by, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone that's doing this to get famous goes insane and quits before they get there.

and I may not have enough experience to back up these words yet, but I'll tell you what -
I'm doing this because I think it'll make me happy. and that's the only reason I'm ever gonna need.

[KJBatson]

Keeps me going is that I've always really really loved this novel and my characters. I always intended to go back and rewrite it someday. But I never did and then I got older and I became a parent. I lost myself. I got terrible postpartum depression.

I got therapy for us and my therapist talked to me about how I wasn't just a mom still. I was still another person with wants needs and hobbies. Before this I might have written 2 or 3 chapters a year.

I had found tapas during lockdown and read some comics and novels. And I decided that I was going to do a weekly webnovel for my own mental health and finally finish the story the way it deserved to be. So while I did have to take a brief Hiatus because we were moving I have kept at it. Every Tuesday. Or every Tuesday and Friday if I have some extra time to do another chapter. So this is how I kept going

[Puck]

I sometimes asked myself why I keep playing music.
People who create comics can´t even imagine how it is to make rock´n´roll music.
There are people out there who literally hate me, they see me as their enemy.
I have been beaten up many times, got threats, people throw things at you,
spit on you, fight with you on stage and so on. I have been to hospital many
times, I got scars in my face and on my body from fights.
I create because I create, it´s like breathing to me. I draw, write and play music
and all kind of creations.
It´s cool for me when one person reads my comic and loves it.
One time I sat in a café with a girl and they were playing a song of a band
I was in. She didn´t know I was in the band, she said "I love this song,
it helps me make it through the day", that sentence gave me energy for
at least one year

[Caro]

I’ve drawn comics since apparently i knew what comics were. And for years I drew pages and pages of comics without ever even posting them online. I do make my living off of my work currently but if that were to dry up and disappear tomorrow I just don’t think I could stop. I doodle in comics format before I doodle in any other way its just what my hands go for before my brain can catch up.

[Ranty-cat]

Why? Are you frustrated?

[Rhonder]

As with my other hobbies, simply because it's fun~ Like sure, I approach the hobby with a mindset of wanting to create enjoyable/successful products and so if something was clearly missing the mark I wouldn't just keep on keeping on for the heck of it. But I sure would find a new project to start up afterwards

[Eliteone]

I think this applies to almost all fields except education. You can just put faith in your work and work your ass off. But in the end it all depends on, whether you like writing or not. If you like writing everything else doesn't matter.

[BarBarKetrab]

Because it's fun. I think I'd even call it an addiction at this point. After a while, I just need to draw or write something to feel satisfied. My forum bio says it all.

I don't know if this is a good or bad thing, but at this point I mainly just want to satisfy myself with what I do. If others enjoy my work, then I'll be very happy, but the reason I continue to go on now is simply because I love it.

[TheDoublekey]

I mean, my passion has always been that of writing and drawing ever since I was a kid. I always wanted to become a cartoonist/animator and I'm working on it. I would like to be acknowledged in some way, but I know it's very hard, so I'm not relying too much on these hopes.
The reason I keep doing what I do is because it makes me feel happy, and that's what really matters.

[diamondactor]

Simple, it makes me happy and relaxes me. It also helps me feel like I've accomplished something with the idea (very much helps my mental health on bad days). I would love if people read my work, but I gave up on the notion of becoming world renowned for it a long time ago. I'm not a marketer/promoter. I have other things that are more promising for me, so this is a hobby while other things pay the bills.

[KiabIce]

I would say, cause I had hope. I had hope that someday someone would read my one in a billion story and would enjoy the story as much as I worked hard on it. That someone would enjoy the world I made and the characters. That my story wouldn't be in vain cause at least someone read it.

[jmhenry]

Because a life lived doing what you love is a life worth living, even if it doesn't become anything big