Thank you guys for helping inspire me to write again. I was so scared of the process of writing that it was keeping me from being creative. I plan on finding my own writing space, process, and creating more time to write. Great episode!

A lot of good food for thought here. I’ve been pondering many of these same issues in relation to my current project. I’ve always been very much a “just jump in and start writing” type, but I’m purposely switching things up and trying to do more planning and outlining this time out. It’s also the kind of story that requires some research, which is another thing that doesn’t come naturally. But hey, trying new things is how we grow, right? 😉 Anyway, thanks for the great discussion. I like putting the podcast on while I’m doing the more “mechanical” stuff like inking or coloring…keeps the other half of my brain active!

Thank you both for your comments. Its amazing to hear not just that we have listeners but that we’re helping them with the issues they’ve been going through. Keep working and share what you create with us!

Glad to help! Just getting started can be such a hurdle, and it’s great to hear that both creating a space for yourself and just writing have both been effective for our listeners.

Wow, so many great things in this episode!

I really identify with Matt’s sentiment that if you don’t make it, it doesn’t exist. Before I started my comic, I used to deliberately hunt down bad stories and tell myself that “their comic is better than mine, because theirs EXISTS and mine doesn’t”. And I told myself that so much that I drove myself crazy enough to start my comic.

To the point of capturing ideas when they come to you, I keep quarter sheets of scratch paper in my purse to jot things down. I actually find nice, new fancy sketchbooks VERY intimidating because I feel like I might be wasting nice quality stuff on bad drawings/ideas. But throwaway sheets of paper gave me a lot more freedom to come up with a lot of ideas and follow bunny trails without spending a whole lot of time to make them presentable. Then I can lay things out side by side and compare, fuse together things that worked in my next draft, and trash the rest so it doesn’t distract me.

As a side note, I’m an INTP too! So now you’ve met two, Cory! One of the things I discovered when I started my comic is that making a dedicated effort to go back through my archives regularly allows me to get into the “feeling” when I’m not in a Sombulus mode. So it definitely gets easier as you go!

Hey! Fellow INTP!

I’m starting to think that there is a larger population of INTPs in the creative industries than in the general population. Apparently, we are ‘big idea’ people.

It was great meeting both you and your husband in Phoenix. I hope we can get together for some other conventions as we both get closer to achieving our artistic goals.