November Blog: Too Much Thinking (Patreon)

I put my house on the market and got a few offers immediately. We ended up agreeing to one of the offers and now if all goes well it will close on the 10th of December and I will be homeless! Yay! Haha, that's not something a normal person would be excited about.

The picture above is my office desk which is all that remains in the house. I'll keep working here until the house closes though. After that, I'll be in flux. I don't have a solid plan locked in just yet but I will crash at my parents until I figure it out. For now, I'm looking into trying to buy a duplex so that I can rent out part of it. I'm also looking for a total junker that I can buy for dirt cheap, rip out all the walls and fix it up the way I want. But we are heading into snow season and so I might have to wait until spring. 

Nevertheless, I'm excited to see what happens. Some days I'm really looking forward to it and other days I get overwhelmed about it all. It's a bit of a rollercoaster still for me. 

My goal is to finish recording and editing all the Comics Classroom Lecture videos before the end of the year. That way I won't have to think about it anymore once the new year starts and I can focus again on making books. 

I keep changing my mind every few weeks on what I should be focusing on in the new year. You would think that a year long sabbatical would have given me enough time to think it all through and figure out a plan, but somehow I don't think that's what I'm supposed to be doing this year. The more I try to figure things out the more it seems I'm forced to just wait and rest. But I keep myself busy with secondary tasks like video editing, occasional writing and testing out ideas that I immediately loose interest in continuing to do. haha.

Youtube 2022

For instance, I know I need to keep making content for Youtube (or at least I think I should) because it has proven to be the best way to reach a new audience for me over the last 5 years. But what kind of content is always the question for me. At this point I think I should make two kinds of videos: 1) short, fun ones and then 2) a live-streaming show with artist friends of some sort.

But again, the more I try to figure it out the more I hit roadblocks. The one thing I need to have in my plan is consistency but that is also the one thing that I lack. Consistently working at something every day is the reason I have been able to make the long comics that I have made. For some reason I can do it with comics, but not with Youtube. I think it really just comes down to time. There's just not enough time to focus full-time on Youtube and full-time on making comics, so one of them has to suffer in order for the other to be truly great. Obviously I should be hiring someone part-time to help me with YouTube stuff but I just can't afford it... until I can. 

But in talking with friends, it seems like starting up the artist livestream again might be a good way to go. Not to mention, building a relationship with good friends is always a good thing. ;)

Oh yeah, a few years ago I deleted a bunch of stuff from Youtube and now I wish I wouldn't have done it. In fact, a bunch of it I didn't even remember deleting it, like the series called BruCru ArtReview where I did some critiques and reviews of stuff people submitted to me. 

I've edited all the videos together into two 3-hour videos and reuploaded them again. It's not for everyone but I didn't want to just delete it forever. I might reupload some other things that I find, if I find anything else worth keeping. 

Here are all the BruCru Videos:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMNDVsT1vg 

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_sSAPoJkjI 

NEW PODCAST EPISODES!

I have a few new episodes of the podcast recorded and I just need to force myself to sit down and edit them. So I'm going to work on that now and get you something new before the end of the day. :)

And to end this blog off I just want to say...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

See you in January!

Jason