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This is a bigger project than I expected it to be, but it’s keeping me busy and out of trouble. No need to clarify what type of content I draw, but I will say I’m not going over the edge with it. Not yet. I have to wait for my skills to get better.

Anyways, I’m currently writing a novella that ties in with my series. I’m also working on growing my art skills by drawing manga panels of each chapter. This is only chapter one. I’ll do my best to upload at least once a month. There’s no dialogue because I don’t want to spoil the story for you!

I’m so ready to move onto my series. I already have the first draft written and edited, but I had to put the entire manuscript on the shelf to finish the prequel to the entire series.

Currently I’m working on a novella about a man who’s nowhere where he wants to be in life and is forced to make something happen. Luckily for him, just as it’s getting rough at home, he finds a way out. I’ve been holding onto this story for eight years. I still remember when the idea came to me, deep in a weed addiction and suddenly turning to God. I’m shocked this story still gives me such a blissful feeling despite it being on the horror side.

As I’m revising this novel, I’m drawing manga panels based on how I envision the story. It helps with visualization and I’m also using this method for my series. If you’ve been following me on social media, those characters I draw are my O.C, original concept characters.

Now that I know how to use my blog properly, I’ll write more here than on social media. I’m trying to cut back on those sites and focus on long projects.

I have no option, but to keep going.

This year’s been going by so far so good with my goals in diving fully into my passion. Whatever comes aside art and literature is like side quest I’m completing on this journey. If you’re a gamer, it’s like accidently completing a side mission without your knowledge and collecting the rewards. I love when that happens.

I was watching a preview on a video from a Master Class session where the speaker was saying something along the lines of “Once you discover that world and the characters that belong in it, it becomes YOUR WORLD. And until you express that world, it will claw at your brain until you express it.” When I come across that speaker and his class, I’ll be sure to take down his name and watch the entire video myself. His words stuck with me. It’s been how I’ve been feeling since last year of starting this project.

Now that I’ve been seeing progress in my work, I have to keep going. If I dont, it will probsbly be a huge regret. Another way I keep going is by telling myself, “you have so much time as it is. Express yourself now. In 200 years, no one will care and of they do, congratulations.  You made a little difference in the universe. Have fun.”

Are you working on a project that has now consumed your every thought outside of your responsibilities? Congratulations if you have. That’s your passion project, whatever it is and no matter what people say, you have to keep going. You have to finish whatever it is your committed to, to the very end. No matter if it’s perfect or not.

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If you had all the time, money and resources to create something, what would that project be and why?

Can you start on that project now with what you have and build up on it in the following years?

Do you have a passion project already? What do you love about it? How does it bring you joy?

If there was something that could jeopardize your passion project, how would you protect it?

Make a promise to finish your project today! Keep going with it no matter what! Consider it your main quest in life and enjoy.