Alex Claw

I’ll tell you what, this whole new year thing has rocketed forward with some shakiness.

It’s the overall picture that kills you, that distant thought of ‘oh, shit. I’ve gotta do all this.’ that sort of grows and grows and grows, until your brainpan in filled with nothing but the noise of ‘oh, shit.’

Good times.

There’s this thing I keep telling a friend of mine who tries to do too much.

“One thing at a time.”

I’ve been trying to do it all once. That’s not working I’m feeling overwhelmed and lazy. I need to compartmentalize and attack. Divide and conqueror. Separate and pounce. I need to follow my own dang advice.

I’m going to follow my own advice.

This is me following my own advice.

I’m gonna draw an update. I’m gonna finish a short story. Then I’m gonna read me a book.

One thing at a time.

We’re going to make this year rock, am i right?

Yeah, we are.

BITTERWATER TALES

So a two years ago I began Bitterwater Tales in hopes of updating it regularly, but then I got too bogged down in drawing and spacing out. Well, after a year and a half of it wallowing in not-being-used-ness, I’ve decided to resurrect the site and begin anew.

The goal is for a five day a week update of drabbles, 100 word mini stories.

One update per week of a short story I’ve written.

and one Friday Flash Fic, which will be posted on… Fridays.

So, lets gather around, folks and give a hearty smile for Bitterwater Tales’ restart. Huzzah!

I’ve been thinking a lot on what to do next year and I’m all about selecting various dates on the calendar and declaring that it’s a day where everything is going to change. A day where I’ll begin writing more, drawing more, and doing all the things I love to do. It’s the new year and what better place to start than on the first day of 2012?

This New Year, I shall be trying to do the following…

Resurrecting Websites
Desolation Station, the forum that shriveled up due to not having enough time.
Alternate History the series, the site that hasn’t updated due to the usual not having enough time. The plan now is to finish the titlecards for all the episodes written.
Bitterwater Tales, I got caught up in drawing and did far less writing than I should have. The site will be resurrected and hopefully updated daily with daily drabbles, weekly flash fics and short stories.
My Tumblr account – There was the October Zombie Month that sort of fizzled out, but I plan to restart it with general daily sketches and see how my drawing and skill have changed over the course of this new year.

Books I Plan to Write – hopefully all this year
Zombie Novel – working title – Two years of planning (or thinking about it) and only ten thousand words written.
The End is Nigh – The obligatory apocalypse novel. Full of destiny, good and evil beings, a world suffering from all kinds of apocalypses, and two people trying to survive it all.
The Black and Sway – A noir-ish story involving blood magic, gangsters, and a retired hit-man, in a world that’s a mishmash of Rome and Aztec cultures in modern times.
Depression Era – working title – The United States is gripped in a crippling depression, violently polarized politics, and social unrest, in this a rift opens up leading to new worlds that bring hope and terrible threats.

Other Writing Plans
Get a short story published in a professional market.
WRITE EVERY DAMN DAY

Drawing
Finish and compile All Manner of Bad into a book (book 1)
Finish and compile Zombie Roosevelt into a book (book 1)
Lay a better foundation for Project Whiskey (it’s a comic)
Daily-ish sketch.

Other drawing stuff
Guest comics, there are some sites I’ve been meaning to ask to do some guest comics as a way to network, expand my readership, and give back to some folks who’ve been inspiring and fonts of information.
Fan art, the same reason as above.

Educational stuff
Learn more about Character Design and Visual storytelling
Learn to write better stories
Begin my education on the business side of writing and drawing (hey, its what I wanna do for a living)

And finally…

READ MORE BOOKS!

That’s about everything I plan to do this year. It seems like a lot and it is a lot, but I feel right here and now that I can do it. Ask me again in a week if I still feel that way.

Now, off to do stuff.