I may be slow as Tartarus, but... at least I'm not on hiatus! · 3:08pm Dec 11th, 2013
First of all, YES. Yes, YES, a resounding YES, I am still working on "Daring Do and the Secret of the Fourth Wall". 
Rumors of my hiatus have been greatly exagerated. 
What about this artwork makes you think I'd just abandon the story like that? And I made it mainly just to reassure people I was still working on it! :D
But... erm, yeah. I can kinda see why I'm getting some incredulous stares from you right now. I'm pretty slow indeed. 
Let's get right down to the Q&A:
"Why does this take so long?"
a) I've said it many times before, and I'll go on to repeat it many times. I'm a perfectionist. 
I can't simply do things half-baked. If that means going over the same chapter for the fifteenth time, then that's what it takes to make it a good story. 
b) It isn't even so much a matter of lack of time, as it is lack of energy. 
When I'm exhausted after a long day's work - or sometimes just 'cause I missed one hour of sleep, to be honest 
- I simply can't write a narrative. My brain just fails me when I try to. The vocabulary will elude me, the ability to string sentences together in a fluid, enticing way will be inaccessible, any attempt at scenery descriptions or character body language just throw a nasty SEGMENTATION FAULT.
But regardless - Oh, sure, writing a journal goes fine, writing comments or drawing comics, doing animations or such isn't a problem. It's all a matter of what I write. Maybe it's 'cause I'm not a native English speaker, and the parts of my brain that store the English language just can't operate at optimal efficiency when I'm tired. Dunno. 
Still, to reiterate - this is far from the first long-term project I've done. 
Let me give you a few examples:
"Sonic Billiard Adventure" - 30 minute flash cartoon. Took 51 weeks to complete, albeit admittedly with a 3.5 months forced break inbetween. 
"Zelda HACKED: The Twilight Zone" - 14 minutes of video editing goodness applied to hacked videogame-glory. How long did it take? I ... actually don't remember. Was worth every month of its work-effort, though.
"A random tribute to Roger van der Weide - Okay, just ignore this if the name "rogerRegorRoger" doesn't ring a bell. But on the off chance it does - his work actually inspired me to take up drawing and animating in general. Heck, I'd never be at this point without the guy. 
So, here's a ~15 minute tribute to whom inspired me. I know, it doesn't look like much. That's because it was actually my very, very first (and a half-th) flash-cartoon. 
It took me a solid ~53 weeks to pull it off, and (asides from a forced 4 month break) I just went on and on and on until I got it done.
The moral of this blog-post is:
I may be slow as Tartarus, but darn it, I can be persistent. 
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