I think I suffer from some form of creative ADD. in some interview I read, Dave Navarro talked about how if he didn't have a band he was in, he wouldn't play guitar as much because there are too many other things to do. I tend to be the same way. One of the reasons I think i take on too many projects... to impart that sense of crisis and urgency. I know when I was drawing my own comics for a living back in the late 80s, I had a really hard time motivating myself to do the work. I'd play guitar, write short stories, all kinds of things, but with stuff that I was doing 'for me' that a publisher *might* publish when it was done... well, there wasn't the external pressure, and stuff just didn't fucking get done. (Of course, I was pretty steadily 'altered' at that point, so I'm sure that could have something to do with it...)

So, I've got all these projects going, and I'm feeling the urgency, now I'm working on actual time management. And not just time management in terms of getting all the work done... but also time management in the sense of taking time to do things I enjoy like play games, watch movies, draw pics for my kids, take my wife to dinner.

In other words, a full and well rounded life. We'll see how it goes...

As part of that, watched the new Appleseed movie tonight. Loved the story... I've never read any of the manga or seen the original Anime, but I think the CG/Animation stuff looks consistently better in Wonderful Days. There are moments the characters in Appleseed look a little too much like the MTV CG Spiderman series. Mind you, I still love it... there are just astounding sequences that leave me twitching and sobbing.


In unrelated (kinda) news, read through a ton of Sinfest strips... makes me feel like shit about a.) the frequency (or lack thereof) of DM and b.) the quality. Inspired me to do something about it....

and I'll be at GDC the second week in March and Wizard World LA the 3rd week of March. Busy times...