Just what the hell do I think I’m doing?
So it appears this webcomic is transforming from an ink-scribbled semi-true blog type thing into... something else. What, I don't know. And I've realised I don't care. When I started Some Things... I thought it'd be best to keep to a single style, one that would hopefully improve over the months and years, but ultimately remain consistent.
Turns out that's no fun.
So now I'm just going to draw (or photoshop) things I feel like producing. Things that 'just feel nice' as it were. Sometimes they'll be meaningless, sometimes they'll be part of a series. Sometimes I might get bored with a series and return to it at a much later date. Think of it as flipping through random TV channels, only I'm holding the remote.
Outside of this site I'll continue to stumble between all the other projects I take on. Writing and drawing that graphic novel, taking photos, photoshopping, script-editing a Flash adventure game, and above all writing a novel (the one thing I'm sure I'll see through to completion, even if it involves failure).
It's a satisfying way of working and I like that this webcomic will reflect that.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
I'm liking this:
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
[via BoingBoing]