To be honest, it’s been a weird couple of months.
There’s been a battle for change and all that good stuff going on behind the scenes over here. Not big changes, just, y’know, the smallish life changing changes that have to be made so that a certain individual doesn’t succumb to the siren call of laziness. The battle is on going, but so far so good.
It began one sweltering July evening, while I sat hunched over my computer trying desperately to not fall asleep while drawing an All Manner of Bad update. You see, when one wakes up at five in the morning and sixteen hours later tries to complete an update for the following day, things get a little on the physically exhausted side.
Then in one of those Eureka! moments, I thought to myself: “Perhaps drawing when you wake up would be better than drawing after a loooong day at the day job”, it took a few moments to realize that yes, indeed, drawing when waking up would be far better than drawing when completely exhausted.
So began Vampire Hours. Instead of crawling out of bed at five in the morning, I began crawling out of bed at ten in the evening.
You’d be surprised how much energy you have in the wee hours of the night, while the world slumbers and snores away. I wake up and go about my normal routine, drawing, writing, and reading. It began to reflect in the fact that for nearly two months I haven’t missed an All Manner of Bad update and I’ve only missed one Zombie Roosevelt update. Plus, there was the continued blogging and sketching (which reminds me I have to get back on that).
Now that things are moving along a bit more smoothly, productivity wise. The new change that’s been going on is adding more productivity. I’ve been jotting down the things I’ve been doing lately and discovered to my semi horror that the weekdays are the only days I’m drawing or writing. In addition, I usually take Mondays off and sleep through Wednesdays. Which means that only three days and a hurried Sunday evening draw session are the only days where anything gets done. I’ve got the time and the knowledge of what needs to be done, now I just have to saddle up and ride off into that sunset.
Change is once again the big word for this last quarter of the year. There’s a lot that still has to change, not only in what I’m doing artistically, but also in the, y’know, real world stuff. There’s always that big cloud of worry that floats overhead of Health, Finances, Relationships, etc. etc.
As they say, the best time to tackle problems is right now…
Smallish Goals for the last Quarter of 2011
Draw a page a weekday (All Manner of Bad or Zombie Roosevelt)
Write two pages (physical pages) a day for the Novel.