You've gotten a lot of pencil work done for the next Enrod The Clockman installment.  This is good.  A minute ago you were working on some outline notes for the graphic novel that will follow the one you're working on now.  You're very excited about the ideas you have for it. But you still need to get faster, you still need to get more focused and increase your page turn-out without decreasing the quality of your artwork. You have so many stories to tell, but with the necessity of a day joy you only have so much time.

In other news, you went to the Specialist yesterday.  Interestingly enough, the problem you were dealing with got resolved for the day right before your appointment.  But it could come back. The Specialist told you in all likelihood that what you were experiencing was stress related. This is the second, though entirely separate, stress-related bodily issue you've had to deal with in the past six month.  The first was when your had rupture underneath of the macula of your left eye, which has since gone away but left a probably permanent distortion in that eye's vision.  Before now, you never really thought of yourself as being under any stress, but maybe you are.  Maybe this feeling that you often try to maintain, this sense of being busy and not lazy, maybe this is stress.  There's so much to do and keep up with, and maybe your constant thinking and worrying about them is causing you stress and you need to learn to rebalance these things.  It's not like you don't take breaks, but maybe they're the wrong kind of breaks, or maybe you're not taking actually takeing a break, since you never stop thinking.  Even last night when you watched several episodes of the Witchblade anime on YouTube you were studying it more than you were actually watching it.

About Witchblade: You never let yourself get into the comic.  When you were reading comics growing up, you were always insulted by a lot of the stuff that was coming out of Image during the 90's ( as you've addressed in the forwards of both Tales From Planet Aeruen, and Guns, Robots and Talking Animals. ), and a big part of that was because of the way they made all the women look like porn stars, and Witchblade was/is a primo example of that era.  You do like the concept of the weapon and the mythology, but overall, it never grabbed your interest enough to collect it, especially since you'd already wrote it off as a wank-off comic.  And really, whenever you did try to read it, you just never were able to get into the characters.  The writing was probably the problem.  Lately though, you've tempted to start buying the collected eBooks from DriveThruComics.com, especially at nearly half off the print price.

Speaking of that site, you're very happy that both GRTA and Headhunter are now available as eBooks on there as well. Now you just hope people will buy them. You've discounted GRTA down to .95 cents, but maybe you should make it free.  Or maybe you should upload TFPA and The Clockman short story and offer them for free instead.  After all, GRTA is good enough that it shouldn't be free.


It's getting late.  Post this and go to bed - you need your sleep for when you go over to your girlfriends to draw tomorrow.

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