Back to work full time this week, so less time for fun stuff like gaming. Actually, The Old Republic is causing my computer to overheat and shut down all of a sudden, so I wasn’t playing as much as I wanted to anyway. It started on Saturday. After reading up on the problem online, I opened up my computer to clean the fan. It was DUSTY! That seemed to do the trick and I was able to play on Sunday without too much trouble, until I tried watching a video while the game was open. Then it shut down again. I’ll give it another try later, but I’m not holding out too much hope. Looks like I might be shopping for a new computer in the near future.
Okay, so drawing break. As I mentioned last week, it’s been a while since I’ve drawn any new mash-ups. Until now that was purely because I wanted to take a break from working on the site full time. I worked on new strips (standard Funnies and Animus Wars) and that was it. Well, yesterday I started working on a compendium of the little tidbits I wrote about different places and people in Pelaria (tentatively titled Ardebast’s Almanac). It got me thinking that I need to start writing again. Not to mention that it was kinda nice having more time to game. The problem is that drawing mash-ups takes up so much of my time and energy that I don’t feel up to writing (or anything else beyond watching TV). The solution is obviously then to draw less. New strips are always my top priority, so that means I need to take a look at the mash-ups.
The mash-ups are what’s getting the most positive feedback these days, so I don’t want to stop drawing them completely, just to go slower. Before the holidays I was working at a clip of 9 drawings every two weeks. I’d break down the posting to one week of five drawings and then the other four the following week. The new plan will be posts of up to three drawings per week. That gives me (at least) 21 days to do 9 drawings, which I think is doable without sacrificing my writing.
This is all just in my head right now and it’s subject to change. Just throwing it out there because I find once I’ve posted it, I’m more likely to follow the plan (Fun ‘n’ Fantasy crossover and Kerfuffle Shuffle plans notwithstanding). Of course, I have no obligation to post at all, but I know myself well enough that if I let myself off the hook too much, I’ll just drop the whole thing completely (as I have so many other projects) and I definitely don’t want to do that. Sometimes though I need to remind myself that this is a hobby and not a job.
So that’s the news for this week. I’m going to work a bit more on the almanac. Have a good week y’all!