I’ve been a bit less than productive this last week and a bit. I guess it’s a culmination of a couple of things really. It’s me going at this design, drawing, writing and coding stuff non-stop for a while, and I guess I just needed a break. What’s cool is I’ve been catching up on a lot of reading that I’ve wanted to do for ages now, as the pile next to my bed just seems to be getting bigger and bigger despite me promising myself that I wouldn’t buy anymore books, comics or magazines until I’d finished reading the previous ones.

It’s really strange but I feel like I’m wasting time by not doing anything, and it’s getting a bit hard actually. I love the fact that I’ve got several projects on my plate. I’m pretty devoted to what I want to accomplish and this past week has been slow, it’s strange like the inspiration has been sucked out of me. It’s a mental block that I really want to get rid of completely.

One thing I’ve not achieved yet and this is something I wish I knew how to do, is to strike a balance in terms of time and commitment to all the projects I have. I can’t seem to do that, as if I get stuck into something, that’s it, I have to keep hammering until it’s where I want it to be. I miss the creative buzz I get after I’ve completed a project, I do miss it and yet I sit there and nothing comes out.

This used to happen to me when I used to draw and draw and get stressed out when I wasn’t as great as I wanted to be. Or I could only see the flaws in my work. This is the equivalent of a writer’s block, however I believe that a mental block basically cuts off your creativity, your inspiration, and it does happen. It happens when other things in your life get in the way.