09/12/2024
I was thinking this morning about what I've learned from some of the bigger projects of my career so farā books like Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods and our Intuition book, for example.
It can feel overwhelming embarking on a project. A lot of us talk about our big ideas and years later have not started work. We are still talking about it. I did that a lot when I was younger ā and still do, to be honest. I find excuses to not start ā 'Nobody will want it. It's going to take too much time. There are other people doing it so much better than I could', and so on.
But its important to just START the thing. Then put one foot in front of the other until it's done. Just get it going and focus on each little step at a time. Before you know it, you'll totally surprise yourself. Do it for yourself and not an audience and just enjoy the ride. Better off starting your project now and having something to be proud of in one, two, five years time than arriving in that future and it still just being a dream. An idea is just a dream until it is executed.
If we feel our drawing skills are not yet ready, we can at least start thumbnailing, scribbling, writing. Make a book just out of scribbles while we hone our drawing skills. That way, the idea exists, no matter how rough.
With that said, I should take my own advice, get back to my various threads of ideas and scribbles and writing and get something new going too.
