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4 years ago
Scribbling nonsense all across the board like jaguars leaping from trees of leather bodices encasing aged withered corpses whose eyes dazzle with the light of one million and three silver satellites flying over Los Angeles hiding illegal immigrants from Irish potato farms built atop the golden ruins of El Dorado filled with demonic Ewoks hurling tremendous tankards of tons of Tylenol at the panda bear ninjas that hide around every corner of the magic square building trying desperately to pull up its skirt and set roots on another cubic square inch of the board upon which I am scribbling nonsense.
I've come to a significant decision regarding my work.
For the past couple years I've been trying my damnedest to make sure that I get at least one piece of writing and art posted every month to continue showing the progress that I'm making as a creator. This has worked out decently well for me more often than not.
But last year something happened. I wrote and completed Rising Tide, my first extensive long-term writing project, significantly longer than anything I had created in a long time. I had cast off the shackles of my long-standing inability to complete any of the multi-part stories I endeavored to create. It was new territory for me. It whetted my appetite.
Around the same time back in October, I had started Stains, the much bigger follow-up to Tinged. I have made significant progress on it, but it is still nowhere near completion. And, in the time since then, I have only been thinking of more and more big projects that I would like to work on.
Consequently, I no longer feel the same sense of satisfaction from completing small stories. My ambition has overtaken my past desires.
I want nothing more than to complete Stains before the end of October, so that it doesn't end up taking more than a year to finish, and so that I can then move on to whatever I want to do next. So, to that end, I've decided that from now on I'm going to make long-term projects my primary focus. If I'm struck with the inspiration to work on something smaller in scale, then I'll get that out, but I'm no longer going to fight with myself by splitting up my focus over and over again.
For the past couple years I've been trying my damnedest to make sure that I get at least one piece of writing and art posted every month to continue showing the progress that I'm making as a creator. This has worked out decently well for me more often than not.
But last year something happened. I wrote and completed Rising Tide, my first extensive long-term writing project, significantly longer than anything I had created in a long time. I had cast off the shackles of my long-standing inability to complete any of the multi-part stories I endeavored to create. It was new territory for me. It whetted my appetite.
Around the same time back in October, I had started Stains, the much bigger follow-up to Tinged. I have made significant progress on it, but it is still nowhere near completion. And, in the time since then, I have only been thinking of more and more big projects that I would like to work on.
Consequently, I no longer feel the same sense of satisfaction from completing small stories. My ambition has overtaken my past desires.
I want nothing more than to complete Stains before the end of October, so that it doesn't end up taking more than a year to finish, and so that I can then move on to whatever I want to do next. So, to that end, I've decided that from now on I'm going to make long-term projects my primary focus. If I'm struck with the inspiration to work on something smaller in scale, then I'll get that out, but I'm no longer going to fight with myself by splitting up my focus over and over again.
Viddibus
~viddibus
I think this is a good decision, take your time with your projects, they'll turn out lovelier than they already are.
Wheremi
~wheremi
Put simply, if that is what fills you with contentment, especially in the face of the things that weigh you down emotionally, then certainly, go for it. You have to enjoy your craft first and foremost.
