lackadaisycats:
Sharing this article here in case it’s useful for aspiring authors and creators, and because I have a lot of these types of questions in my ask box:
- When did you know you were ready to start making your comic?
- How did you know when you were good enough to begin?
- How much research/writing/studying/practicing did you do before you started?
…But I didn’t know, I’ve never experienced a feeling of good enough, I’m still learning new things about comic-making, and I’m still fleshing out the writing, revising and researching.
No one wants to dive into the deep end blind, but waiting for a moment when you suddenly realize you’re ready will tend to leave you in a rut of perpetual pre-production where, even though you may be toiling at something tangential to what you really want to do, your momentum and the prospect of truly beginning are fading. On past attempted projects, I’m quite guilty of this - having “binders full of lore and no book”, as the article states.
Instead, I’d recommend riding that wave of head-over-heels love and excitement about a burgeoning idea, and that sense of urgency about getting something underway into a place where really doing the work becomes the habit, or even the backbone of your daily life. The bona fides, the confidence and knowledge all come with the doing, not with never-ending prep work.
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