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Quick Thoughts On Not Being Quick
I am so mentally drained that when people talk to me, it sometimes takes a full 5 seconds to listen to what they say, comprehend it, and formulate a response. It is regrettable, and I find myself trying to avoid conversations. Thankfully it is spring break and I get my evenings back to myself from teaching.
Closed out my business books last week for tax time, and realized that conventions suck me dry. I could take the almost $2000 I spent on going to conventions and having a table and have a fantastic online ad budget. For a webcomic. Of some sort.
Maybe even an auto-bio webcomic… I’m playing with the idea. I banged out 10 pages of script in 40 minutes last night of good stuff. I’m formulating it around the idea of how much I fail at everything, and how that isn’t bad, that you should fail or you aren’t trying hard enough. But even with that philosophy, it can get to you. All I know is that writing last night was the best I’ve felt in a year. Auto-bio is troublesome though: I don’t want it to be a navel-gazing, emo suckfest.
Oh yes, and I now have an iPhone. Suck it, bad mobile phones, suck it hard.
HoltmannMar 23, 09:52 PM
Not failing at everything, Max. Hardly. But I agree with you: sometimes it’s all mistakes before something will come out right. I had a writing teacher who said to me, “90% of what you write will be complete shit. But you’ve got to write the 90% in order to write the 10% that’s good.”
And even if you think the quote is played out, I always keep a little Beckett at my side: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Good luck, man. And if you’re ever in DC, you’ve always got a place to stay.
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Mar 17, 03:10 PM
Two thousand dollars. I like the way that rolls off the tongue.
Convert that into one dollar bills and let’s go to Vegas.