oh yeah, that expression in the last panel. that’s familiar.
at least you can make a strip about not being able to make a strip which is more than me! I just throw a tantrum or rip up my half drawn toon only to regret it a second or two after..
As a writer, I have the same feelings about the blank page. So intimidating!
I’m suffering from writer’s block currently, well, more like writer’s constipation. I’ve got ideas but they won’t come out :D. Even when you’re an artsy, positive, aesthete-type person you sometimes can’t get the “I suck” monkey off your back :). Anybody got any tips for fixing that?
Shoe was always one of my favorite comic strips. In one episode, Skyler sees his uncle, Professor Cosmos Fishawk sitting and gazing out the window. Skyler says: “You’re staring out the window again. A writer should be pounding the keyboard…” The Professor replies: “Wrong. Typists pound keyboards… Writers stare out windows.”
I know about the surprise visits from the voices in my head. They talk to me while I am trying to fall asleep and then when I wake up I forget what they said. And I know it was good because my wife says, “Would you quit laughing and go to sleep. What’s wrong with you anyway?”
Kona: I love Shoe! What a wonderful strip… I do so miss Jeff MacNelly. I loved the way he drew trees… and the characters all had super big tennis shoes!
Thanks for the French sayings, ninjayanyan!
Meggers: I want to draw a monkey on your back! … or maybe a gorilla or a really big Chimpanzee.
Painters block? :XD
Unless it’s a blank page on the word processor, the blinking cursor laughing at you as it dares you to write something good.
My solution? I just start writing. Even if it’s crap, I just think, all beautiful things need fertilizer to grow…
Ah, that wonderful, cursed muse! It comes and goes of its own accord, with no consideration for people’s lives or deadlines.
Yah, Pete… that’s exactly what ought to be done! When I painted more, I would paint the entire canvas blue to start… that got things rolling.
And muses rarely show up when you ASK them to. They usually show up when you ain’t got a pencil… or when you roll over at 3am.
Here’s a nifty TED talk with the author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE… and her musings on creativity…. it’s funny and smart. Have a look.
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_macaulay_s_rome_antics.html
oh yeah, that expression in the last panel. that’s familiar.
at least you can make a strip about not being able to make a strip which is more than me! I just throw a tantrum or rip up my half drawn toon only to regret it a second or two after..
I feel the same way all the time when I try to draw.
but thankfully, it doesn’t always happen when I try to write.
unlike like now at the moment, where I run from a blank page.
As a writer, I have the same feelings about the blank page. So intimidating!
I’m suffering from writer’s block currently, well, more like writer’s constipation. I’ve got ideas but they won’t come out :D. Even when you’re an artsy, positive, aesthete-type person you sometimes can’t get the “I suck” monkey off your back :). Anybody got any tips for fixing that?
“Le symdrome de la page blanche” (litteraly : white page syndrom), that’s how French call and known best “Writer’s block”.
We also say : ” C’est le premier pas qui coûte” (“Its the first step that is hard to take”)
Shoe was always one of my favorite comic strips. In one episode, Skyler sees his uncle, Professor Cosmos Fishawk sitting and gazing out the window. Skyler says: “You’re staring out the window again. A writer should be pounding the keyboard…” The Professor replies: “Wrong. Typists pound keyboards… Writers stare out windows.”
–Quoted from “The Aware Writer” at http://awarewriter.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/when-writing-is-like-good-sex/
Andy: I’ve also done the strip about having no strip… 🙂
I know about the surprise visits from the voices in my head. They talk to me while I am trying to fall asleep and then when I wake up I forget what they said. And I know it was good because my wife says, “Would you quit laughing and go to sleep. What’s wrong with you anyway?”
Kona: I love Shoe! What a wonderful strip… I do so miss Jeff MacNelly. I loved the way he drew trees… and the characters all had super big tennis shoes!
Thanks for the French sayings, ninjayanyan!
Meggers: I want to draw a monkey on your back! … or maybe a gorilla or a really big Chimpanzee.