No posts in November! Whuuuuut..?!?
Confession
I am not proud of this. This is a confession, not a humble-brag. I hope that sharing motivates me to change.
I spent too much of this autumn playing games rather than creating. The games I play these days are so-called "casual games" for mobile devices. They tend to be puzzle games with pretty interfaces, often giving me the sense of creating something beautiful without my actually creating something myself.
I did manage to get some writing done during November, as I had planned, but not nearly as much as I could have. I barely sketched, either, and certainly finished no image or comic page.
So, I am climbing back on the proverbial horse's back and trying to return to a creative groove.
To help get back into drawing and writing comics, I plan to spend some time each day sketching. To keep myself accountable until the habit sticks, I would like to post my sketches on a regular basis and let you vote on which sketch from the batch should be continued into a finished image. I think I shall aim for posting and running a vote monthly (or twice monthly), starting in January 2025 with the sketches from the rest of this month.
I hope that you are faring well. Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Sharpclaw Comics
- Oct 09 - Sharpclaw 1.08.008
- Oct 16 - Sharpclaw 1.08.009
Crazy Wall
I know this is cliche, but I swear the days go by faster and faster. I feel like it should still be around the start of October, not the day after Halloween.
As I mentioned last month, I plan to unofficially take advantage of NaNoWriMo to get some Deer Me scripts written. The "unofficially" means I am not actually going to create a project on the NaNoWriMo website or check in throughout the month. I instead plan to simply make a goal of dedicating two or more hours per day this month to writing.
This past week or two, I have been preparing to write. I sat through hours of voice memos to transcribe the ideas I had recorded. After that, I started sorting through my scattered notes, which I am still doing. I feel like what I need now is something between a big timeline and a "crazy wall," since I have so many concepts, but they need to be organized into one cohesive arc.
This is somewhat challenging, since most are stand-alone stories that do not seem obviously interwoven. However, they are connected by cascading consequences. A story about Jared discussing his fur color is going to impact a story about whether Nichole should have a nickname. I have to make sure the Jared fur story comes before the Nichole nickname story. That is the kind of thing I am trying to sort now.
Honestly, sorting such messes is the current reason Deer Me remains on its ridiculously long hiatus. Help!
