blog gap

Sorry for the gap in blogging the past few days. Bleah. i wrote a MT rant that describes part of what drove me nuts this week (our shopping cart software vendor breaking international shipping). Also, i’ve been desperately trying to get to the point i can start getting ahead enough with the comics so as to not miss any when we take our trip towards the end of this week.

The nice thing is, i have things setup to get cracking on them, i just need to do so. With that in mind, i’m going to get drawing. I spent a part of this morning doing some ‘research’ playing Guilty Gear X2 (something i haven’t actually done before). One of the best things about being behind on games is that its really cheap to get them after they’ve been out for a few years :)

I actually have some things about writing that i want to talk about, but i’ll save that for tomorrows blog entry. It has to do with creating a system that works with your creative outflow - i had systems that were too structured and pretty much required you to have things worked out to use them, and i had stream of consciousness systems that … well, didn’t allow for working with the ideas once you put them down. Re-thinking how you do stuff isn’t easy, but i think my revised systems have been working pretty well.

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7 Responses to “blog gap”

  1. hiro says:

    ohhh…guilty gear x2..
    i haven’t played that in ages..
    makes me think of Genshiken. :P

  2. Markus` says:

    guilty gear x2. Hmmm sounds interesting.

  3. F07|4 says:

    Cool GGX2. When was the last time i played that…=P”

    ^_^ Welcome backies.

  4. Chuck says:

    Congratulations on getting the next comic done *gasp* EARLY! I knew you could do it! Of course, that won’t stop me from checking to make sure the sky isn’t falling. ^_^
    But seriously, I do appreciate all the hard work you do and how much you care about your fans and make sure you have as many comics up on time as you possibly can.

  5. ni says:

    that’s really sad. i’m thirteen and i don’t even play video games. i somewhat envy you in a friendly way, Fred.

    wish you luck on thinking of your new system thing.

    that’s all..

  6. Perks says:

    I hope you end up getting the international thing sorted. I’m on a sticker binge and I need a muffin man one!

    And the latest comic has a panty shot staring me right in the face. My word. At least Largo might become at least more animated, having the shite kicked out of yeh usually does the business…

    As ever, pristine.

    (sorry if this isn’t the right place to go on about MT; I can’t get to the forums on this network, banned)

    Perks/~

  7. vexx says:

    Comic early: one of the signs of the Apocalypse… Hopefully you can get ahead to the point of having more time to reflect on the story arcs.

    Of course, to divert you into oblivion, we have Shuffle ep 12 (with lots of Nerine and Primula … though sad girl in ice comes to mind), And it is looking like the fansub groups are going to just dropkick the Kamichu broadcast series and do the Kamichu DVDs since they include 4 inbetween episodes (DVD only). … numbering hell. I’ve watched the DVD ep 1 twice now …. holds up well with personalities and some lovely animation bits of the lead character.

    Currently downloading the first ep of Nanoha (second season) … lots and lots of hope that the quality continues.

    And of course the Hazuki-minions are circling around Karin as that show prepares to launch…