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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Alright let's make it.

Ever spend a lot of time on something, doing a lot of work on it, moving forward, only to feel like you've not really accomplished much at all? There's no reason for me to be feeling like that right now. I've made some really good progress on Lifesicle over the past week. 



I scanned all of the art pages into my computer without any further incidents or technical difficulties.


I created a prototype container and imported the words and the images into it. 


I did some really good word cutting and story editing in the process.


I finally got around to assigning all the chapter titles.


I edited my author bio. Although I kind of hate it, so it's probably not the last time.


 I decided the "art legend" is definitely IN, and I did the art for that, and then scanned all of those pages into the computer.


 Altogether, that's not nothing. It's actually a whole lot of something. I crossed a number of pretty big things off the list. And yet, here I am, looking at all of the things I still have to do, and feeling forlorn. You would think that with the BIG stuff done, aka the story and the art, that I would feel like the rest of it, the mishmash of all the little things, would be a piece of cake. 


I've done this before, this exact thing. The first time, it all just flowed and cruised along like a hot knife through butter. Now, it all feels like a heaping heavy backpack filled with stuff that I'm never going to unpack. I sort of thought it would be the opposite, you know? The first time I was cutting my path, so this time, knowing what I have to do, the twists and turns ahead of me, should be easy peasy. 


Anyway, whatever. Maybe it's just me being impatient.


On a somewhat related note, I sort of ended up breaking a promise I made to myself regarding The Smile Sessions and saving it for later. During my story edit, there was a bit of research I needed to do, and I felt like I had exhausted  my other resources. Sure enough, The Smile Sessions ended up giving me exactly what I needed. I should have known that would happen. Anyway it's fine. I was maybe being a bit dumb by forcing myself to wait. I'm super glad I finally listened to it; it's one of those "my life is better for having heard this" kinds of things.


And I'm amazed at all of the cool connections that happened in my head while it was on. Like "Oh! This goes with that, and that's part of this other thing!" kind of stuff. I was listening while doing some painting for the art legend, and this really neat thing happened... in the latter half of the album there are all of these tracks where Brian Wilson is giving directions to the band and the session musicians, and it almost felt as if he was giving me directions as well, lol. Silly, I know. But it really helped the flow of what I was doing.


You know what would cheer me up right now? Some kind of sign that I'm on the right track.  Positive feedback, or something. That's the trouble with a project where you're doing all the work yourself. It's pretty lonely. To get the feedback, I'd have to *gasp* actually let someone see it. Yeah, I'm not ready for that. I'd settle for a deja vu, or even a really nice, happy, wish fulfillment dream. Hear that, brain? Get on that, alright? Alright.

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