A long wind comes through

There are so many things to do and only one lifetime to do them in. Sigh, priorities, priorities. The struggle ensues to figure out where to go next in the field of opportunities and it’s complicated by my tendency to interweave all my projects.
For example I want to build a pin hole camera because the photographs they take are very artistic, but it turns out they are also the ideal way to photograph miniatures due to the focus characteristics of a pin hole lens. Which got me thinking of an idea I had had some years back about working with miniatures, and if I wanted to do outdoor scenes mini trees would be cool. So I have on my list of things to do, Make an action figure, grow bonsai, create and use a pinhole camera.
But If I were to make a web comic it would be important to understand how to manage a web page. So I wanted to go back a bit and learn more about computers and programs, which I used to be fairly good with until I abandoned that pursuit.
The Ability to create and manage web pages would also be handy in managing a store where I could sell some of my handmade jewelry…
Well this could get tedious to explain but the point is that I’ve got this list of interconnected things that form this giant circle. And for a while the hardest part was figuring out where to start. Now I’m diving in at several locations and enjoying the accomplishments I have been working at, and I’m stumbling a bit from time to time but that is okay (with all the interconnection I’m liable to come back to it from a different angle anyway).
Now it seems like I can’t get things to happen fast enough for me, and exciting new things keep filling in the spaces in my life. Spaces that used to be used for taking a deep breath and thinking quietly. I’m going to have to keep my notebooks handy these days because I’ve already forgotten a few interesting ideas that I should have written down.
So at once it’s all going too fast and taking too long. I think I need people. Hole me up in a studio and I will produce great amounts of interesting ideas and projects without end, and then let my people sell it and contact the right people and arrange the supplies and such. But who am I kidding I’d just pick up more projects to fill the time that gives me.
One of the funniest things about this is that if you had asked my family and friends some years back, they would have said I was laid back and casual about everything, to the point of being frustrating to some of them.
More than likely now they just shake their heads at the fact that I seem to have gone off like a hand grenade, scattering in so many directions.
Oh well, I’m a little stressed but I’m enjoying the creative aspect of it. Now if only I could find a way to sustain myself on that aspect. How does one earn a living being … well whatever my type of person is called? Polymathic, tinker, dreamer, roving jack.
Well I’m going to likely be done with Treasure Island by Thursday night; I’ll be tinkering with images in html over the next few days to get a feel for it. And trying to restrain myself from running into that steampunk project I now see some great potential in (I’m learning some HTML tools that would be incredible for this and it would allow me to showcase some of my maps and maybe even handmade jewelry and I might be able to transfer and sell some of it as t-shirts in my store and…).
I’ve got to get my second of the message in a bottle projects out soon… so, perhaps I ought to finish that one up. I’ve got friends and relatives to get together with during my favorite time of the year, now. And I should finish this month’s mapping challenge at the cartographers’ guild. I’m sort of waiting to hear back from another cartography commission. And I’m getting myself ready to write for Nano. This reminds me that I really ought to type and edit some of my August stuff so I can start submitting it. And this weekend I need to sit down and start reviewing the material for the Sumerian cuneiform.
This reminds me of one of those ideas I had recently, about my working with Egyptian hieroglyphics, cuneiform, Ogham, runes… and a few others. It wonders into the handmade jewelry and T-shirts and such.
But much of these things should be done or mostly done by Monday. That is the goal anyway. Then it’s another week like this before I slam myself down for a truly ambitious Nanowrimo this year. Then I need to try and polish off the Master List for Big fun scary challenge by year’s end.
This might be a bit of a relief before I do it all again next year… only stepping it up a bit.
So come join me in nano, or in BFSC, or just fall into a creative project or two and see where it takes you. Ask yourself, ‘How much can I create in one day, one year, one lifetime?’
I’ll write again tomorrow. I’m still juggling the schedule around a bit to figure where things fit for now.
Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack