Bots

Just a quick BOTS update: Thank you to everyone who has contacted me about this short writing break I'm doing. It really means a lot to know that someone cares even a little about my little comic. Development is going well but there are some serious family things going on right now that have slowed my progress somewhat.
In the mean time, you can now check out my sketches at: tarobot.tumblr.com

Update: I'm now free to say that my wife is loosing her job some time this summer. Helping her look for new employment will obviously take up a lot of my free time for a while but my BOTS planning still moves along step by step.

No new comic this week but, trust me, this is a good thing. Why? Let me explain...no, there is too much. Let me sum up: I've had to admit to myself that BOTS is starting to get stale and I can no longer allow that to continue. BOTS has not been canceled, it has just lost it's voice and I need to take a little time to find it. I need to find what only I can say and how only I can say it.

Something has forced me to do some mental house cleaning on the projects that matter most to me. (i.e. The ones that make me no money.) The problem is that my personal workload has snowballed to the point where I realize that I'm spending too much time on things that aren't making me any better. I believe this is called 'busy work'. Getting better has nothing to do with innate talent, better technology or any other such magic. Getting better is the result of following a pattern where you work your ass off on something so frequently that you can't help but to improve. Busy work is not making me better at anything. It's merely a great way for me to hide from the hard work I should be doing.

Why am I telling you this? Because, like me, you only have about 18 hours of attention span per day and I'm grateful for any of that you spend reading my stuff. As my readers, you deserve work that is meaningful, not a bunch of unedited first drafts.

So, please stick with me while I go on this vision-quest of sorts. I promise that it can only serve to make things better.