Should Can Will
“You lack discipline!” -Detective John Kimble
New Project of Creative Initiative and Inspirational Action (NPCIIA), gogogo!
I understand that a lot of the frustration and dissapointment I feel towards almost all of my own work is due to the fact that I don’t think I’m very proficient at what I’m doing. Drawings rarely satisfy, my songwriting could be better, my writing is lacking. I hope that actually practicing the things I try to do may improve upon my most basic skills of expression.
So here on this blog, and now two weeks before the spring semester kicks in, I’m going to get into shape. I need to draw a lot more. I need to learn how to play more songs. I need to write everything.
I plan to draw every day. If Ryan Pequin and John Campbell (of no relation to Detective Kimble) can draw a comic every hour of every gotdamn day, I can draw at least a single page within 24 hours.
I plan to record a song every day. I’m not going to write these songs, I’m just going to learn how to play them. Covers and covers and covers, any requests?
I plan to write as much as I can. This is uh, a bit more vague than my other two herculean tasks… yes it is. I need to journal more (aside from this amorphous blogspace). I need to start trying to write poetry again. I need to start writing about things that I find really difficult to express with language; like food and language and bike and comix.
Accountability is key, so I want you (the internet) to be very disappointed (not mad) if I fail to follow through. I’ll try to post scanned drawings, recorded music, and written bits in a timely manner, but delivery is second to content in this scenario.
I’m starting tomorrow, shouldn’t I?