I think I owe you guys an explanation.

I'm sorry about there being a lack of comics recently. The truth is I've been in a real funk the last few weeks and I haven't really had the heart to work on anything new.

I got to the end of my prewritten scripts, and it's simply a matter of writing new ones. I have an idea of where I want the story to go, but I need to write the daily scripts to flesh out all the details. And without those scripts, the comic can't be made. I thought it was a matter of just sitting down and writing them...and in a way, it still is...but I just can't seem to do it. I just seem to have lost my muse, I guess. Add to the fact that I've been having "trouble in paradise", so to speak...with the added bonus of not being in "paradise" anymore...and now I've got issues of self-worth (or lack thereof) to contend with on top of all that.

As you may or may not have noticed (the latter being more likely), it was my birthday a couple weeks ago. And all I asked for was some feedback from my audience. (Note I didn't say "demanded".) And what I got what bupkiss. Well, truthfully, I got one "Happy Birthday"...from the one person I would've expected it from. My point is that I haven't felt a real sense of urgency to resume regular updates aside from my own senses of priority. I feel as though if I just gave up right now and never made a comic again, no one would notice or really even care.

But *I* care. I want to get the ideas out of my head so they won't distract me so much. I want to continue. But, like I said, there's no sense of urgency. But I didn't really want to go into another hiatus, either. It's a paradox that's tough to fix: in the end, I'm really only doing this for myself and I shouldn't really care what anyone else thinks. But I know (well, I have an idea) there's a silent majority among you who do care. And I can't expect to attain the kind of popularity I want by continuing to miss updates due to my sense of lack of popularity. Does that make any sense?

You know I don't normally get all this angsty and self-absorbed through the comic like this. I'm not an outright attention whore. In short, there will be more comics. I want to say soon, but really I have no idea when. And remember, a little encouragement goes a long way. And a lot of encouragement goes a lot farther.
posted by Tim at 12:40 AM