So, 4-24-2010 is on the horizon, and the month that was March took a lot out of me, schedule-wise. Being indoor percussion competition season in the NCBA, and Easter being this weekend, our entire season was condensed into a compact month, and I was half-asleep for most of that month as a result.

Payday has been sitting on my drafting table for that month, relatively untouched. I took to sleeping in, to be quite honest, in order to not be too tired at night for rehearsals and lessons. Now that it’s over, I expect to resume drawing in the morning. However, the time away from the drawing board has given me time to think… again.

I will continue to work on Payday, of course. I would be remiss in not finishing it, after spending all that time completing what pencilled pages I’ve finished. However, I’ve thought about in what capacity I would consider Payday to be completed? Should I continued until the very end? That’s what I would like, but considering I only draw for an hour/hour-and-a-half each weekday morning, that could take quite some time (and it already has).

I could take what exists and turn it into a short story, but it would lose the intended impact if I got rid of the ending, which hasn’t been drawn yet.

What will end up happening instead is that I will continue to work on it during the week until 4-24-2010. Then, I’ll take whatever needs to be completed and move it to the weekends to make room during the week for another, more immediately achievable project. A project involving a format that isn’t really a priority to me in the world of comics; I’ve said before that what I really want to do is graphic novels. However, this new project is conducive to working for a short periods in the mornings, the output is greater and faster, it will sate my need to do comics, and the idea I have is interesting, entertaining, and has enough fantasy elements to give me a platform to explore different stories and keep me interested, long term. All of this is important to me because, right now, I need the immediate output and the more immediate achievability to balance out the long-term, gradual achievability of working on a graphic novel. And we all know that a good amount of output is important in the comic world. Plus, because I would be working quicker, the project would not get in the way of doing graphic novels on the side.

That’s right. Provided I go through with my grand scheme, I shall be making a return to webcomics.