Somebody say something nice to me, please. Here in my own head, I'm fighting back against the fear that I'm just a stupid poser (Poser poser) hobbyist too dumb to realize I'm not a real artist.

It's been a fortnight without a comic, and it'll be longer. Turns out I don't actually like that. I like having work to post.

I was obsessed with tweaking "Glassfade" [link] for a few days earlier this week. I finally tore away from it to do something else. Maybe I should have stuck with it.

I started designing a strip with a lot of new stuff in it on the 17th. I'm not sure how to finish it, nor the one from a week ago that I'm tempted to start over on. It's getting harder to focus, to complete things.

I'm amazingly broke, but if I get a day job I'll have even less time for art.

If it's what you think, just tell me I'm stupid. Tell me I will never make a living at this, that I lack both talent and commitment, that this last year was a failure not to be continued. But tell me something, just so I don't feel so alone.