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It's been a few weeks since my last blog post. I've been traveling through Portugal and just haven't been able to sit down and put my brain into words. I hadn't intended to write a new one yet, but this past week gave rise to an epiphany I needed to share. To make up for my absence — to the few wonderful people who are reading this — here are some pics from my time in Lisbon, Faro, and Porto. Is Anyone Else Terrible at Vacations? To say I haven't been able to write much since

You've heard it a thousand times: be consistent. It's not bad advice. But there's something that has to come first.

You created a piece of gold, but... No one will ever see it. Of course it has. New or aspiring writers, hate to tell you, but this is going to happen to you, too. You're going to write a whole pile of amazing shit that no one is ever going to see! Hell, what you write likely won't even be used... by you. Welcome to our brains. Getting an idea out onto paper is barely half the battle. So, Where'm I Going With This? You all know I love comics. LOVE them. Grew up on them. No, ac

Every film we've ever watched has been a tutorial for THIS moment. How's That Gandalf Quote re: Hard Times Go? I haven't been as regular with my blog posts as I said I'd be. That's how it tends to go as a creator—peaks and valleys of motivation and output, compounded these days by the emotional weight of looking out at the world around us right now. Someone sent me a DM last week. A filmmaker I know, someone who's been grinding just as long as I have. The message was short: '