So, yesterday’s page is sitting on my harddrive at about 75% completion. It’s been that way since Thursday night, Friday afternoon. Why haven’t I finished it? Posted it?
Welp, if you’ve been following my twitter feed, you probably saw all those tweets from 3 weeks ago about how I completely blew out my back. And you probably saw the tweet from Saturday about how CM and I were having a date night. (For the record, date night was short. It was enjoyable, but short because I am a baker and start work at 6am and also the following.)
The truth of it is that I’m having some health issues right now. For the last month, I’ve been lucky for the time not spent flat on my back staring at the ceiling. Recently, standing and moving in short bursts is okay. Since I stand for 7-8 hours at my job, this is awesome. I can still work and am mostly able to pay my bills (except for that week I spent flat on my back. Staring at the ceiling. Making horrible, toneless, elongated cries of frustration). Right after my back healed, my leg started giving me problems, and it cramps to the point that I can’t really sit. Or lean. Or lie on my side. I’m either standing, or lying on my back watching Korra on the laptop.
I have no idea how much longer this is going to last.
Last week was an awesome reprieve. I got the last page up, I got most of this page drawn and mostly toned in the same day. I was stoked–I’d finally be able to unpack my apartment, find all my art supplies, and get my life and the comic back on track. And then sitting became unbearable. And we find ourselves here. (By the way, my apartment’s still not unpacked.)
So…I will not write this year off as a wash, not when there’s still 7 months left to it. I guess I’m going to shoot for every other week updates until I can get my body back in shape. Or some kind of lump update at the end of every month? I don’t know. I’d really like everyone’s preference on this. So weigh in on how you’d like to see updates for the foreseeable future, until I’m physically able to give you comics once a week again. Follow me on twitter, watch the RSS feed, email and comment. I’ll let you know when pages are posted via these means.
In the meantime, I’ll get myself better and find a way to streamline the story, so I don’t get caught in any scripting or layout hiccups again for a few years or something.
I really am sorry about this, but I promise, I’ll keep everyone in the loop.
-Kat