When doing longer projects, there's always that point where it just gets difficult. Whether you got caught in a new idea for it, your skills improved after the course, or you are done with it.
AKA "The man with the hammer", while more commonly used in sports where you're at the last mile running and your body is starting to complain on all sides, it's a very common feeling in all kinds of craft. For me personally, it's hitting the halfway point of a new issue of a comic.
Since we make 32 page issues, I usually get used to the new settings and concepts in pages 1-4, then go full force until page 5-16, and once I hit page 16... Motivation drops, I get some impostor syndrome, and wonder if the work so far is 'good enough'.
After 6 comics drawn to completion so far, and working on the 7th, it's pretty much a proven theory. I don't quit, but I definitely see process slowing down, being less motivated, and generally getting less done as other things suddenly take much more priority.
I'm not going to stop working, but it's something I'm sure a lot of other creators have issues with.
So being stuck at the halfway point for Life On Cora #5, where do you get stuck with your projects?
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Having to create to deadlines must be different to just doing stuff as you feel like it, but just making a career doing what you love is living the dream.
I have got a bit stuck when it comes to songwriting. I did loads a while ago, but have not come up with much recently. At least I can still make music anyway and it's just a hobby for me.
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I used to do a lot more with music, but with art taking 99% of my time I've had to let go of most other hobbies. Not a bad sacrifice IMO haha. I find that songwriting especially is a matter of inspiration, certain feelings or a tiny idea or chorus sparking an entire song, I wouldn't know how to do that under a deadline either, it comes as it comes.
The point with deadlines is that they also help you keep limits, and thrive within them. Creatives often forget that 'work smarter, not harder' counts for them too. At least, to an extent, it can really help you get motivated to just get it done and over with so you can move forward again.
Douglas Adams said that he loved deadlines. He liked the whizzing sound they made as the passed :)
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