I’m excited. My story has been coming along nicely and things are finally starting to come together and make sense! I’ve gotten a bunch of books on my kindle about worldbuilding, character development, and tropes. I read part of The Trope Thesaurus at the beach today, and I must say it’s excellent. I do love me some good tropes! I do wonder when I’ll be back at the point, drawing-wise, to be able to take on the art part of this project. I’m pretty (lol extremely) rusty at this time. I have not drawn substantively since like…2018 I think. Something stupid happened last time I posted my art (friend essentially insulted me lol) and it sent me into a kind of death spiral I guess. Dunno what else to call it. I have come to the conclusion that I am WAY too sensitive and really don’t need to give a fuck what anyone thinks, even friends, unless I ASK them for their thoughts. I need to quit giving any fucks at all. Not even a little one. No fucks. None. My field of fucks is now dry and barren 😀

As it should be.

Artists really can’t let people bring them down. I always encourage and compliment on what I like about it, and I never criticize unless specifically asked to do so. Not everyone is going to like what you do, unfortunately, and sometimes they will be a dickhead about it. I have to accept that myself. I’m very guilty of letting that shit bother me, obviously. But like I said, no more fucks will be given.

Now I have to figure out how to format a comic page. Procreate has an automatic sized comic book page thing, which helps greatly, but I SUCK at boxes. I never know what to do with them or what looks right. Last time I had an online comic (2003 lol) I kicked out about 16 ugly, poorly formatted pages before throwing in the towel. I hope it won’t go like that this time. I have much better materials and programs now.

I just need to be able to draw.