Stupid comic.

[kehrli]

I fully intended to finish a new page of my Quite Neglected Webcomic by this Friday. Right now, that's beginning to look terribly unlikely again.

This is not, as in other times, because I am too busy (though I find ways to spend my every waking moment doing something) or because I don't feel like drawing (even though it's been, what, 10-12 months

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[criada]

What about the whole, "you'll never get better if you don't do a lot of crap first" thing? You have tangible results in your drawing improvement, looking from Moralicide #1 to present. You aren't even trying to get better!! You're expecting yourself to somehow magically fart out perfect art at the first go. Why the hell do you think you can do that? You have to work and practice, play around and not be afraid to fail. Give yourself some credit, relax, realize that people like what you do, and just draw.

[kehrli]

Well, yes. Except that my crappy writing isn't self-published on the internet anymore for all the world to see. But I catch your drift. :)

[renatus]

I'm on the fence on this one. On one hand, I think you're still too hard on yourself for not being Warren Ellis yet and would rather scrap something every time your skill level has noticably jumped past the last time you worked on it. It's the flip side of people who constantly reboot their webcomics. You don't think so, but Moralicide is a good comic and lots better than plenty of print comics I've seen, warts and all.

On the other hand, maybe your focuses are shifting and you've started to realize that if you don't make a decision you'll put off coming back to Moralicide forever. The story isn't unfixable if you wanted to fix it, and it wouldn't hurt it if you didn't fix it and continued on as you had the story planned. Neither matters if you just don't want to be bothered with it anymore. In that case, you're better off trunking it and focusing on your other projects and getting them done.

Either way, make a definite decision about it. The longer you put off deciding the more uncomfortable the decision will be.

[kehrli]

Yeah, I don't know. The story hasn't shifted, I am just being chicken about writing it. Bleh. I must be fearless! Like ninja!

[renatus]

Yes! You must! Being a candyass is not allowed!

[mcjulie]

Moralicide is brilliant, don't let the doubt gremlins eat your brain.

However -- maybe you're actually done telling that story and the best thing to do is wrap things up and move on.

One reason Sandman, you know, changed the face of literature and all, is that it was allowed to END. Other comic series, if they were popular, the goal was to keep them going forever and ever. I think it's difficult, if not impossible, to tell a really satisfying story that way.

Goth House was like that for me (of course, it's been sadly neglected lately because, guess what? If I spend more time writing I have less time for drawing, who knew?) -- I was getting sort of generally burned out on it, then I wrote an episode where they get kicked out of Goth House, and I saw it as moving toward an end point, and suddenly it was a story I wanted to tell again.

[fenmere]

Mmmmmnnngh...

[kehrli]

Oh, I"m not anywhere near telling the end of the story. The comic DOES have a planned end, though, so it was never intended to go forever.

[notadoor]

The art is (from my untrained, non-connoisseur viewpoint) decent; I can believe that you've improved since you've started, but you're not committed to a previous skill level. If you compare the first few comics of Questionable Content to the later comics, there's obviously been a huge stylistic shift.

Is there another webcomic project you'd much rather be doing?

[kehrli]

Is there another webcomic project you'd much rather be doing?

No. :) So basically I just need to get over myself, as usual.

[csinman]

Rather than advice, here's an observation:[X] Story that you're amazingly excited about! Can't shut up! Drawwritedraw!
[X] Hit some bumps in the process; worried but still plugging away.
[X] Halt.
[X] Halt for extended period of time.
[X] Mid-creation panic attack.
[_] Give up and start cycle over again...?

[kehrli]

Yeah, good point.