A Snippet of Addiction

So many creative outlets, so little time.

With the comic, the new novel in thirty days thing, and the blog, I'm blowing creativity out my ears!

That's good, though. Really. There's nothing more fulfilling than creating something. Bringing something into existence from nothingness, or a jumble of things.

I'm not talking about kids. Some people think instantly of popping out little people as soon as you say creating something is a beautiful thing. I don't want children, at least not for a long time. It's not that I hate kids, I just don't need them around now. My patience is paper thin with the cats, much less children.

At least the cats can't talk back. Well, that I know of.

So, here I am, just oozing creativity, and it's like a drug. I need more as soon as I get something really rolling I see something else and I just have to do it, have to try it out.

Hi, my name is Corgan, and I'm addicted to creating.

That's right. I'm hooked. I got started on this blog, and it grabbed me. As many of you know, I've spent literally hours tweaking the html, playing with the colors, and trying to find new nifty little tricks like that changing header.

I tried to branch out and make more blogs. That didn't really work.

Then I found out that I could have my own web-comic. For a while a few years ago, I tried coming up with my own comic, but in more of a book form, that involved the skull-headed character that is in Many Tidings Grim. The path was as follows. A certain someone sent me to a web-comic, (I think it was Penny Arcade, but I could be wrong), that had a link to a comic called Girly. With a little wandering about, I found Keenspace, and started obsessively doodling.

Thus, creative outlet number two was created. That got the juices really flowing.

Then, I magically stumbled across the National Novel Writing Month, and I couldn't resist. It was a way to get a novel going and prove to myself that I could do it, and that I might just be able to pull an idea together enough and stop obsessing over pointless details and actually have something solid to show for it that was over ten pages long.

Wow, that was a long, long sentence.

So here I am, frantically trying to keep all three up and loving it. I could do this for a living! Well...yeah...I guess that's obvious, since I want to write for a living, but the comic thing, that's a surprise.

I'm even thinking of changing my minor to Art.

Yep. Now I'd better go write a little more on the novel, and then attempt to get another strip all prettied up for the web-comic.

Save your interventions, this is a blast.