{"id":106,"date":"2009-10-27T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:55:15","slug":"inspiration-and-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2009\/10\/inspiration-and-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration and Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve noticed that I’ve been away from the blog for a few days, I have a couple of things to say to you:<\/p>\n

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  1. You must be my readership.\u00a0 Tell me who you are so I can cater to you.<\/li>\n
  2. There are two reasons why this has happened:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    1. A repeated failure of my Writer’s Quest<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Working on a few sporadic projects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I think in life I draw inspiration from what other people around me are doing.\u00a0 If you are ever down in the dumps about a project of some description, find some people that are doing the same sort of thing and find out what they’re working on.\u00a0 I know that whenever I’ve been to the UK Web and Mini Comix thing that’s held each year, I come back geared up to work on comics after seeing all the weird and wonderful (and sometimes poor, but still inspiring) things that people have created in their spare time.<\/p>\n

      I recently represented myself as somebody who likes making things.\u00a0 I don’t think this is strictly accurate.\u00a0 I’m somebody who likes the feeling of having made something.\u00a0 The actual process I find frustrating, but I’m willing to go through it if I see someone else doing something that I think I’d enjoy doing too.\u00a0 Some might say this displays a lack of imagination, but I prefer to think of it as a short attention span.<\/p>\n

      \"Snakral\"

      Snakral the Goblin<\/p><\/div>\n

      The project that I have finally got around to starting is something that’s been stuck in my head for several months.\u00a0 Allow me to introduce you to Snakral.<\/p>\n

      Snakral is the protagonist of a comic that I’m working on called “Paladin”, about a young adult goblin who wants to rebel against the tradition of his species and train to be a knight protector of the realm, despite being rather weedy even by goblin standards.<\/p>\n

      Once I’ve finished a substantial amount, I’ll make it available in some way.<\/p>\n

      A friend of mine offered me some advice with this, namely to “not make it like Warcraft”, which was never the intention, despite my desire to start a comic about goblins and paladins whilst in the throes of online-game-addiction, but I am taking a page from the book of Warcraft developers Blizzard by saying this will be done when it’s done.\u00a0 In other words, don’t hold your breath for new comics (which I hope nobody has done for my comics in the past anyway: I just wouldn’t want that on my conscience) as I have no idea how long this will take me to fully flesh out.\u00a0 I’ve decided to take a much more ordered approach to this comic than my previous efforts with the Student Squad, which is very much a “ready, fire, aim” approach, without so much of the aim part, or if I’m being honest, the ready part.<\/p>\n

      Additional Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Is it a bad sign that I really struggled to spell conscience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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