Haha. Delayed post. I'm clearly not consistent with this thing, but I bet it's partially because I work on other things instead.
My contract is coming to an end, much sooner than it seems (January 11, 2011) because of the holiday season (although, I am not sure how holidays work in my company since our outsourced team doesn't share the same holidays). But I'm going home for Christmas, so I will be taking a well-deserved break then.
I've learned if you work too hard too consistently, burnout becomes a continual state. Which is not healthy. I think I started to lose the reasons I was doing anything related to games or California, but going home for Thanksgiving really helped clear my head and get away from the work stress. Going back on Monday should be better, even if there is already a line of meetings waiting for me. :-P
In the meantime, I am hunting for my next job. Anyone need a game producer with experience working in web and with outsourcing teams?
I started making a comic as a hobby/side project. Right now I'm in the planning phase, writing out the plot, making sure I get the story flow correct and the characters defined. Next step is figuring out how I want to display this, draw, and update. Maybe it seems weird to be planning out so much, but something frequent with web comics that I dislike is people going on haitus or deciding somewhere in the middle of the comic that they don't like where it's going so decide to start over. I'm sure there are many varying reasons to this, some of which can't be avoided, but I'd like my comic to have a completion date and a consistent update of pages at regular intervals. So for now, I am making sure the story is solid enough for me to start drawing pages for web viewing. Having a plan helps me stay committed to this too, instead of letting my changing life get in the way.
As a producer too, planning suits me well, anyways. :-P
Truth be told it feels kinda funny writing this comic. I don't usually let others know I like writing fantasy (oh yeah, this is going to be a fantasy comic. It's an idea that has floated in my brain for awhile now so I figured, why not? Let's do it ^_^) so it feels silly thinking I'm going to be sharing it online in public soon.
Anyways, updates later.
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