{"id":336,"date":"2024-09-18T03:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T03:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:25:09","slug":"hey-hello-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/hey-hello-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"HEY! HELLO!! HI!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apologies for going dark on the whole website\/comic thing for so long! I just didn\u2019t want to force anything out that I wasn\u2019t happy with and was determined to just take my time getting things sorted so I could continue on better footing. Along with that I was resolving some IRL nonsense and got back into a consistent physical therapy schedule. Last month at my doctor\u2019s visit I ended up being rather dangerously underweight. Every month I\u2019ve been dropping a few pounds and at that appointment I weighed in at 101lbs\u2026. I\u2019m short, yes, but a healthy weight for me is 125-130lbs. Being in pain you tend to forget to eat, when you forget to eat you get tired, and when you\u2019re tired you don\u2019t wanna exercise\u2026 which leads to increased pain in my situation. It\u2019s a vicious circle that you gotta fight against, and while it was a rough couple of weeks forcing myself to eat and exercise more, I\u2019m finally starting to see the results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a couple of years, I\u2019m starting to actually walk better too! What was long accepted as my \u201cnew normal\u201d after my heart issue, walking like fricken Jack Sparrow, has started to improve with a focus on improving my gait with low impact exercises in the pool. Starting to feel okay again and for the first time in a long time I\u2019m optimistic about improving. As I\u2019m writing this I\u2019m getting ready to go to the gym in a bit. I don\u2019t wanna go, but I know it\u2019s good for me. Ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway as a result of this, I\u2019m able to put in more effort into my comic\/website. For the past couple of years, I\u2019ve just used what little strength I had to chip away at comics\/art little by little, but now I\u2019m feeling like I can finally take a step forward to fully get things operational here. I worked on a ton of comics at once and focused on getting a more consistent art style between them that I could build upon. Feel pretty good about how they turned out and I feel ready to move forward from here.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Worked on a bunch of pages simultaneously while jumping between them and periodically updating a document of them all next to each other. It really<\/em> helped with the writing and making the art more consistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I can\u2019t promise any update schedules beyond this, but I do intend to upload frequently here. At the very least you should see \u201crambly\u201d posts with little scribbles peppered in, and meanwhile, I\u2019ll try to get a new comic page<\/a> up when I can. The Driving Nowhere<\/a> comic is more of a \u2018big picture\u2019 pet project that I intend to work on for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I\u2019ll have 50-page \u201cvolumes\u201d that I\u2019ll self-publish eventually\u2026 <\/em>\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

I actually really<\/strong> like working on multiple comics at once instead of one at a time like before. Lets me sorta walk away and come back to pages with a fresh set of eyes, while also smoothing out the art\/writing. I don\u2019t waste time struggling with certain things when I allow myself to work on something else if I ever feel stuck. Usually whatever issue I encounter becomes much easier to solve when I let myself disconnect from it for a bit. I\u2019ll prolly cut down on how many I work on at once, but I can see myself working on four or five at a time from this point forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So\u2026 yeah. Forcing myself into a schedule I can\u2019t physically manage would just result in compromised work that I\u2019d regret. Instead of doing that, I\u2019ll just have my rambly posts with scribbles peppered in as regular content, and the comics will be a bonus! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…watch me fail at this too and go dark again for a few years<\/em>..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apologies for going dark on the whole website\/comic thing for so long! I just didn\u2019t want to force anything out that I wasn\u2019t happy with and was determined to just take my time getting things sorted so I could continue
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