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Whatever Works
Hello peeps!
So, the by-week, as usual, didn't go as I'd planned. While I was
able to get some work done and upload some things, I
found myself sick for a good chunk of the week. I guess I only
slow down to do these things
when I'm already feeling kind of low, otherwise I would have just
continued working at pace. But, I do really need to slow down a
bit. My health hasn't been the best recently and I need to focus
more on taking
care of myself so I that I can continue doing the things that I need to
do for the forseeable future.
I always just feel like I'm behind the eight ball, and that I
don't really have a shot at making or doing the things that I want to
do. I'm trying my best to get everything worked out so that I can
get back to square one,
but I'm jittery and nervous, and I don't feel like I can manage it all.
I am excited about what I want to do, but often when it gets to making
my body do the things that my mind wants, that's difficult.
That's everyone, of course, I'm not special in that regard, but you can
understand how frustrating that is. To want something so bad, and
know that you're perfectly capable of it, but not being able to force
yourself to do it.
So, for a while anyway, I want to try something new. With the
exception of Sketch on the Spot (which is its own thing), we'll be
shortening the streams a bit and running them three times a week.
Each stream will be two halves, about two hours long each, focused on
one job, with an approximately 30 minute break in the middle. This
will round out to about five-ish hours, I hope, and accomplish two
things.
One, it will enable to focus on a bite sized chunk of work that I don't
have to fret or feel too intimidated by. I can just plop on a few
albums and go and forget the world exists for a while. Two, it
will hopefully give
me more time to take care of myself; shower in the mornings, get a good
breakfast, take walks in the afternoon, and the like. Hopefully
this will stifle the dread of tackling these large projects and give me
time
to chip away at uploads and site updates at a more liesurely pace,
rather than cramming them all in on Sundays or on some random day of the
week that I've found myself with nothing to do where I really should
actually be relaxing.
Sketch on the Spot will function as it has, of course, but I'll jostle
it around a bit now and again, so that people who can't usually attend
can have a chance at getting something.
I don't know how well this will work, but I figured I should just try
something. I'm a little low, and I always feel caged in when I'm
ill, like I need to make a change or something is going to implode in on
me, and
that doing so is the only real way to make progress. I don't know
if that's the case, probably not. But I have to do something.
Anyway, here's the schedule.
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So the plan is to focus on things in terms of priority:
- [Priority] Finish remaining commissions (3 Remain)
- If none remain, pull commission from leftover forms
- [Paused] Finish one (1) comic update per week (Various Happenings or The
Adventures of Clara Cosmos)
- Try to alternate between the two
- Do Discount Bin items
- Work on Azure Dreamer collab
The Fox Saliant Studios Q2 2024
Survey is still up for those of y'all interested in giving me
feedback on the goings on of things around here! It only takes a
few minutes, and I appreciate all the feedback I get.
I'll keep it up for one more week or so and then give some feedback
myself on the results. So if you're interested and haven't filled
it out, please do.
I'm going to be on the hunt for some appropriate cardstock for the first
set of bookmarks, which I hope to have ready to ship out by the end of
the month. I'm rather excited, but that also means I have eight
designs
that I need to create, and that's going to be a bit harrowing!
Still, it'll be worth it in the end, I hope. I just need to prove
to myself that I can do this, and get back to making comics full time.
It's been warm now and again, though it usually doesn't last more than a
day or two. Otherwise the weather has been very nice. I
really need to get out more. I hope you are all doing well.
Until next time, peeps. Thanks for reading.
~Spooky
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