Okay, so today I started thinking about all my projects and decided to make a public announcement regarding what all I'm up to, what to expect, if things are to be cancelled, if I'm totally quitting TS... you know, stuff like that! 8D



So most of you should know that after ToH I pretty much lost about half of my sanity. So why should I be surprised that I just pile more things on plate? I don't know. Probably the lack of brain cells.

So here is my current list, in no specific order:
The Selection
Chernobyl-Curs
Webcomic Reviews from #Comic-Creations
Diabolus of the Dead
Lost and Found
Two personal stories I'm working on (not posted)
An experimental project I'm doing (also not posted)
Artwork, specifically a list of pictures that I really want to finish before they rot in my files.

So... 9 projects all at once? Unless you count each individual thing. Then it's over 9,000.

With all this in tow, you can imagine why I'm running behind on, like, everything. Since school is out and I don't have to go back for another 2-ish months, I'm going to try to get a schedule down to get some of this done, but I may or may not be able to be that successful. Unless I have a deadline for things I tend to get way distracted. DoD parts I upload every other Friday. On the Friday I'm not posting DoD I planned on posting TS. My webcomic reviews were supposed to be on this not-TS Friday but I think I'm going to boost them to... I dunno, Monday or something. So for those things I have an actual set day to work on things.

CC is to be my main priority since next round is the semi-finals and I'd like to try my best to make it as far as I can in the tourney like I did with ToH. So I want to put as much thought into it as I can. Kinda hard now that LaF has been up. I really did not want to enter LaF at all, honestly, but loving peer pressure and my sanity slippage pretty much told me "NOPE. You're entering. >8C" so I am. I love Spirit and Otter way too much now to back down. With my partner ~kalil969 helping, it should be a lot easier. I've never done an OCT with a partner but from my experience in other collabs like DoD, it seems like it will be majorly helpful in the workload. We aren't really diving deep into it at the moment, just slowing working our way up. Deadline isn't for awhile, anyway.

My personal writing projects I'd really like to work on but they are getting pushed to the back burner for now. Same with my general artwork. I work on them when I can, basically. My experiment project has been really fun and relaxing, so that I'm generally okay with working on during project breaks. My comic reviews... I really love reviewing, and I already have read over half of the people who volunteered's work, but at the same time I have issues finding a proper balance of pros and cons in some people's stuff, so it takes time. I also didn't exactly expect to get so many people to volunteer, so I'm a little overwhelmed at the amount I did end up getting. I'm still excited about it and look forward to reviewing them, but with everything else I need to work on, I feel as if they are not of importance. I'm hoping the people don't mind too much.

OH GOSH THIS IS GETTING TL;DR NOOOO



And since I brought it up... TS isn't being cancelled, I just told you that so you'd read this 8D *gets attacked by a thousand bricks*

However things are going incredibly slow with it at the moment. It's not that I don't want to work on TS, it's just that the current place I'm in is driving me nuts. I have redone the dialogue and scenes for it three times and just the other day decided the next page I'm working on I'm planning on holding off and posting at a later time since the flow would be messed up. I'm also getting pressured in my head to pump the pages out at a record speed like every other comic artist does, but I really just can't. It's not fun. It's a chore. TS is really important to me and I've worked too hard and too long on it to have it be something I feel compelled to do instead of doing it because I want to. If I keep trying to force myself to toss out pages when I'm not ready it's going to end up with a bad taste in my mouth.

At the same time, I feel like I need the push in order to get past this rut. So I'm just really conflicted. I hate feeling this way about it, so maybe that's why I keep pounding on more projects, cause I subconsciously want to make excuses not to work on it. Not really sure. I know I constantly compare TS with other comics and read reviews and think "Crap I'm doing all this wrong" and in my motivation to fix everything and make it perfect I end up not doing it at all. At least with OCTs and Diabolus/Linda related stuff I can just have fun and do all sorts of random things and not feel as if I'm doing every tiny detail wrong (which is ironic considering OCTs kinda DO take that stuff into consideration in judging).

I guess what I'm trying to say is, please don't try to push me into working on it. I appreciate helpful support, but saying things like  "Wow, it's been forever since a page was posted." Kinda... don't help. 8'D I can only say that I hope it goes back on track soon, but I can't promise anything. I will be posting WIPs of it, including thumbnails and panels, on my Tumblr whenever they should pop up. I wouldn't say I'm pushing it to the side either, but I'm just struggling, is all.



I think I lost another couple brain cells while writing this.

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