This tells me that I am not cut out for a career in strips. At least, not with any of the ideas I've had so far.
Oh, give yourself a break. Here are several reasons why:
1. There is no agreement on what constitutes "new viable ideas" in your or anybody else's creative work. I can read old Calvin and Hobbes, which is widely appreciated as an apex of the genre, and find underlying patterns in Watterson's writing that he milked again and again and again. For instance... I'm not really sure if it was new and viable to do a dozen different Sunday strips in which Calvin fantasizes about something amazing, then finds himself sitting in a classroom, then sighs in the last panel. But people seemed to like the strip all the same.
2. Inspiration is not FedExed from heaven. You have to sit down and make it happen. "Writing comedy is easy; all you have to do is stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds." -- Douglas Adams
3. Given a contract with a syndicate, your motive to sit down and make inspiration happen would be so much higher than it's been in the past, there's no knowing what you might accomplish.
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Date: 2010-04-28 08:56 pm (UTC)Oh, give yourself a break. Here are several reasons why:
1. There is no agreement on what constitutes "new viable ideas" in your or anybody else's creative work. I can read old Calvin and Hobbes, which is widely appreciated as an apex of the genre, and find underlying patterns in Watterson's writing that he milked again and again and again. For instance... I'm not really sure if it was new and viable to do a dozen different Sunday strips in which Calvin fantasizes about something amazing, then finds himself sitting in a classroom, then sighs in the last panel. But people seemed to like the strip all the same.
2. Inspiration is not FedExed from heaven. You have to sit down and make it happen. "Writing comedy is easy; all you have to do is stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds." -- Douglas Adams
3. Given a contract with a syndicate, your motive to sit down and make inspiration happen would be so much higher than it's been in the past, there's no knowing what you might accomplish.