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Weekly Update - 256 - 2/3/25
🕑 Added 2025-02-04 03:12:40 +0000 UTCI'd like to first welcome WolfenReader and Goldsters to the channel! Thank you so much for your support! It's much appreciated!
On to news. No comic this week.
OMG WHY?! Well, I was working on the script last weekend and I realized that it... doesn't... quite make sense, in the current order I have things. So I'm working on it. To make sure that the next page is the correct page. On a related note, the preview this week is from the page I started drawing that I HOPED to have up this week, but ultimately decided did not fit. So this week I'll be working on shoring that up and making it more cohesive for everyone. I'm still falling into the trap of focusing way too much undeserved attention on (what currently seem to be) tertiary characters instead of keeping my attention on the story that matters. I'm fallible. I'm also currently still absolutely FASCINATED by Pyre and her psychopathy. But that doesn't mean I should shift my story to integrate her more than her proper share. The Cinders will have their time and place. There's a slot for them in this tale, but it's not here.
I'm in that weird MIDDLE part of the story, where I have a vague understanding of what needs to happen and in what order, but making everything line up so that it all works out when we get there is the hardest part of writing. I don't like to force my characters to do anything they don't want to do, but in order to tell the best story, they do need to have the correct motivations to end up where they need to be so that story can happen. Don't let anyone ever tell you writing is easy. :3
The Environments poll is still up! I'll be closing it down this week and declaring the winner in a day or two. Last chance to vote is here: WHAT Should I Draw Next? - Round 12 | Patreon
I appreciate all the votes and I'm honestly surprised that the Redtail Casino is winning! The Deadlands is a close second, and it is also a wonderfully horrific environment I hope to do justice some day.
Comic this week? No.
Drawing: Page 220, Max Body Pillow
Playing: Satisfactory
Comments
WolfenReader
Great way to visualize it! Funny how getting sick of things can be a good catalyst for change.
Trick
I have an analogy I try to keep in mind for that. Each time I start a new project, it's like setting sail on a new ship to try and cross an ocean. Eventually I'll always see rough seas or a big storm that'll make me want to jump off the ship and swim back to shore where it's safe. At some point I just got really sick of that shore and of starting new projects, and now I really want to see what's on the other side of the ocean. If it takes me 10 more years or 15, I'll weather a hundred storms to see it through.
WolfenReader
Aye, writing for sure isn't easy! Just ask me and my ever-growing collection of unfinished WIPs that I keep adding to as I have new ideas... XD
Nick Vasquez
When in doubt of the future look to the past and remember all the things that got you there. What my mom told me as a kid. Thx mom I’ll Remember all the times in had in nap time and didn’t know what taxes was.
