something I am grateful for today
Feb. 12th, 2010 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicI'm experiencing a creativity boost which has some concrete effects on my life. If I may explain:
Our living room has two couches that face the TV. In the evenings, Sharon and I will often settle in, a whole couch each, and watch sutff. As the show progresses, I settle in deeper, stretch out, get comfy, relax... and almost invariably fall asleep somewhere in there. Even if it's as early as 8:00, even if it's a show I really love (cf. Bones) -- I just get so comfy it lulls me irresistably. So large chunks of my life involve my participation in that age-old cliché of Sleeping In Front Of The TV®.
Now, though, I have begun writing the first draft of the script for my new comic. (Hey, that's how I do it -- I write a full script and do rough page layouts on scratch paper before I ever start to draw my final art. All part of my process...) So, last night, I had my notebook with me and worked on the script during commercials... or during slow bits of shows...
and before I knew it, it was bedtime and I had stayed awake on the couch for the whole evening! I know I'm not the only one who finds it energizing to work on something creative, so I shouldn't be all that surprised, but still.
So: not only am I on a roll in terms of getting off my duff and making a comic, but in the process fewer of my hours are going AWOL. It's almost like getting some extra life: -- not bad!
Our living room has two couches that face the TV. In the evenings, Sharon and I will often settle in, a whole couch each, and watch sutff. As the show progresses, I settle in deeper, stretch out, get comfy, relax... and almost invariably fall asleep somewhere in there. Even if it's as early as 8:00, even if it's a show I really love (cf. Bones) -- I just get so comfy it lulls me irresistably. So large chunks of my life involve my participation in that age-old cliché of Sleeping In Front Of The TV®.
Now, though, I have begun writing the first draft of the script for my new comic. (Hey, that's how I do it -- I write a full script and do rough page layouts on scratch paper before I ever start to draw my final art. All part of my process...) So, last night, I had my notebook with me and worked on the script during commercials... or during slow bits of shows...
and before I knew it, it was bedtime and I had stayed awake on the couch for the whole evening! I know I'm not the only one who finds it energizing to work on something creative, so I shouldn't be all that surprised, but still.
So: not only am I on a roll in terms of getting off my duff and making a comic, but in the process fewer of my hours are going AWOL. It's almost like getting some extra life: -- not bad!
