Revisited

Well, it's about time I gave a bit of an update. I've been steadily going through pictures, and will be putting more on here as soon as I'm able - pretty much be prepared for a flood when you least expect it. Sadly, my internet at home is unreliable - freezing up my laptop at random moments whenever I try to do pretty much anything - so my activities tend to be confined to time while at work, and all you others who have internet available at work know just how favorably employers think of overuse of their internet...
I'm looking to reformat my drive and start again, with XP hopefully, which should help, but I won't be able to for a month or more.

I have however been trying to whip myself into shape artistically - I've been feeling such a general fatigue over the last few months - a dark miasma of apathy that I've been unable to break. Maybe it's just the effect of winter, maybe it's the lack of sleep, or maybe it just hasn't been my year for creative pursuits. Whatever, I'm hoping to get back into it and brush up on my non-photographic skills, which are in constant need of dramatic improvement. I was late getting my submission together for last month's theme for the Hower's to look at, but I'm on track for getting at least one in this month. Ideally I want to step up to a full size A3 rendition of one of my ideas, instead of just having these crappy little A5 doodles to show.

Not knowing where to start is a big part of it, as well as the daunting thoughts of how much extra detail on needs to work at, and the patience required. Or perhaps patience isn't the right word - I can be Entlike in terms of patience when I want to be - so I'd imagine it's more along the lines of hyperactivity, and at best a short attention span. When you're the sort of person whose mind will happily concentrate not only on playing WoW, but also watching in a small taskbar window a movie or Top Gear episode, listening and watching both without missing a beat, all the while listening and singing along to songs on the radio, sitting still and carefully edging a fine pencil over a page doesn't sit so easily, no matter how much I'd like to.

But hey, one won't get anywhere without doing one's best, right?

And if the sketching falls through again, next month is National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo.org if you're curious) so I'll have another excuse to thrash out 50000 words in a month - all the WoW-playing has given me all sorts of extra character developments to play with, so it'll be interesting to see where that takes me.

In the meantime, I'll see if I can sit still until it's time to go home