What, ANOTHER Post?

Truth be told, I'm starting to feel a little anemic, creativity-wise. I've been at this over half a year, now, and the muses' spring... well, it's not dry, exactly, but the water level has definitely dropped. Plus I feel like I possibly used up today's Artistic Allotment on thumb-nailing out ideas for the painting Nathan requested I do for our bedroom. It's going to be a diptych- the first I've ever done (which is insane since I really love that format... also triptychs, which is even more fun to say...). My subject matter is Cupid and Psyche (my favorite of the Roman myths and a particularly appropriate image for the bedroom, I think) and I'm definitely capitalizing on the fact that a diptych is incredibly evocative of the double-page spread staple of comic-books. Plus I put in some time on the Firefly pencils (I'm at that awful stage where I'm so close to being ready for inks that it just irritates the hell out of me that I'm not done already, which in turn makes me sulky and not want to work on them...). Sometimes I think it's gotta' be drawing or writing- but not both in the same day. ::sigh::

And then I was ruminating on the fact that part of the theory behind this little project was that I'd finally manage to finish something... but halfway in, not so much. Sure, I've done a few short-shorts, but those hardly count. I seem to have written myself into a corner on the few longer serials I've stumbled into ("Blue Menagerie" I'm looking at you) and all in all I'm wondering if I even have it in me to be a writer. Let me clarify- I do believe I have the talent to write well. My concern is that I don't have the follow-through. ::sigh:: How am I ever to live a life of artistic leisure if I never publish? (There was some sarcasm in that- I'm not so naive as to believe that publishing = instant wealth) (although of course that would be nice...)

But then I remind myself that another part of theory behind this little project was to force myself to write every day whether I feel like it or not. And I have stuck to that, so may hap there's hope for me yet...


(In spite of the tone of this post, I've actually been in a pretty brilliant mood today- a great relief after last week's depressed, listless husk of a woman...) (Hell, maybe that's the problem... good moods and epic creation rarely go hand-in-hand...)