November « 2009 « theolismith.com

: Morning Coffee

The problem with having a blog I want to try and update on a regular basis is that I possess absolutely no social life to speak of at the moment, and as such have only the events that transpire within the walls of my flat to comment on. Unfortunately nothing happens in my flat, apart from me sitting around with my laptop, popping outside every now and then with my coffee to stand on the balconey and ‘dream’.

‘Dreaming’ is the official excuse I use when my girlfriend wants to know why I’m not talking to her and just staring into space with a blank look on my face- I thank The Writer’s Tale for that, where the right honorable Russell T Davies said that that was an acceptable part of the writing process. Unfortunately when employers want to pay you by the hour (can there be such a thing in writing?) they don’t like to count afternoons spent ‘dreaming’ towards your total.

When I’m in the middle of a project, as I am at the moment, I seem unable to do anything until I complete it, including sleeping. That’s bad enough in itself but woe betide me if one of the characters in a story is doing something depressing- because then I end up moping around the flat like a lonely housewife who’s lost her prozac.

Apparently it's christmas on my street.

Hello chaps, it’s that time of year where, every few months, I realise I haven’t updated anything on this site and do a complete overhaul in an attempt to spur myself into action.

This time however is a bit more drastic than previous iterations of the website. As most people who know me will know, I’ve been trying to make that difficult transition from writing and drawing as a hobby to becoming a full-time professional writer and, I’m happy to say, it seems to be working… for the moment.

To reflect this change I’ve modified the site so that it’s now more focussed on my published work rather than the small press comics. That’s not to say I won’t be doing any more small press comics, I most definitely will, but news about those will be contained in the blog posts rather than having their own devoted page, and hopefully I’ll be uploading the odd sketch to the nifty Flickr slideshow at the top of the site as well as on my sketchbook page.

So yeah it’s a bit of a new beginning here, and you’ll notice that most of the pages on the new-look site are blank, but over the next few months they should begin to fill up as the various projects I’m working on come to fruition and I’m allowed to announce them. It’s all very exciting that’s for sure!

I have rather fallen off the comics scene in the past few months, which is a real shame as I love it to bits, and it’s rather depressing being locked away in my study writing rather than socialising with all the lovely folk at the various conventions I’ve had to miss, mostly due to lack of funds. Give me a few months to find my feet though and hopefully I’ll be back with a vengence!

That’s all for now then. Feel free to investigate the new layout and please do tell me what you think!