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Got sick of managing this project from a loose markdown file and set up a GitHub project.

Lots done this week!

If an entity has material and mass, it has some level of flammability.

Wrapping up the fire system is likely more involved than I had originally thought.

GFX!

I have made fire!

Forcecrusher has doors.

Turned out to be a beautiful day for a ride over lunch.

A few weeks ago, while navigating an internet rabbit hole, I came across a week’s worth of visual journal prompts.

Yesterday, I went to my local Goodwill and purchased a dual cassette recorder.

I am not a technically gifted draftsman.

Summer is over.

Sometimes when you are struggling to craft the words for a newsletter, a baby squirrel might fall out of a tree during a rain storm, crawl desperately onto your wife’s foot, and adopt her.

It’s been a bit.

I hope you have a wonderful summer doing whatever it is you love doing.

Fortunately it was just a minor sprain and I didn’t have to hit the SOS button.

I’ve been listening to The Essential Guide To Writing a Novel podcast by Jim Thayer.

This past week I finished reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

Within the month of May we did many things.

This past weekend I went on a 3.5 hour long run.

Hello!

DO Preserve Human Spirit.

Why games?

There’s a comic in here.

Good morning.

This week I deleted the Substack app from my phone.

In this issue: 95 self portraits, character design morphology, and good advice from an old friend.

I’d like to do a deep dive into the process of making a zine.

So I spent a bit of this week fretting.

We spent a lovely weekend in Walden, CO.

It’s been a wild week.

There’s this theory that you shouldn’t keep a backlog - you shouldn’t save the good stuff for later.

I’ve been able to make at least one zine a day so far this year and am still really enjoying the exercise.

It’s easy to fall into the expectations trap as an artist.

I used to listen to music to drown out the world while working.

Back in early October I listened to an episode of the Radio Lab podcast called “The Secret to a Long Life”.

On July 28th, 2023 I “ran” the Never Summer 60k in State Forest State Park in Northern Colorado.

I don’t know why but sometimes when I’m in a really deep hole I don’t want to get out.

This was clearly just one of those days.

Jared’s video below was a key stepping stone on this latest creative journey.

It’s been four and a half months since I drew those pages - so much has changed since then.

Ever feel this way?

I’ve been a bit reluctant to share these.

So, this went about as well as expected if not quite as planned.

We all have our vices right?

I’ve always ridden the waves of a moderately manic personality.

There’s definitely a bit of a struggle to figure out exactly what this project is.

What a weird morning!

That girl is gonna be a trail runner!

There’s this thing cartoonists do called hourly comic day.