If running a marathon has taught me anything (apart from "don't run marathons"), it's taught me that definite goals with set deadlines are a good way of getting things done. In fact, they seem to be the only way I get anything done (if you don't count stuff that my wife organises for me).
All very obvious you might think. I've always shied away from setting myself deadlines and targets where creative projects are concerned though, because of some misplaced idea that it restricts the creative juices and also that it just wasn't very cool.
Well, that's all very well, but it's almost eight years since I produced my online comic Oneironaut for my MA project. For the project I produced episode 1, and the intention was always to carry on producing episodes, for a story arc of seven-or-eight issues.
Well, I finished the MA, got a job, got married, blah blah blah and here we are eight years later and no bleedin' episode 2!!
Well, it's not good this, if I can run a bleedin' marathon I'm sure I can find time to do a bit of drawing and writing and stuff.
All I need to do is make a public declaration of a definite deadline for the release of Oneironaut: Episode 2, so here we go:
Episode 2 of Oneironaut will be online on or before January 1st 2010.
You can hold me to that.
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