SLOW TIMES

I have been trying to slow things down a bit lately in my travels here. While I did a lot of playing, going to clubs and fancy mountain restaurants and the like, I also have to remember that I have a plan overall. Originally I wrote, "...I could conceivably sustain myself on my internet endeavors and have some real adventure to boot. Since I am doing my work in the wired, it shouldn't matter where in the world I am at any given time, as long as there's access. It would appear as though I can't lose." That only holds true if I actually do something as far as my internet endeavors are concerned.

While most of the time, lately, I am just hanging out with my friend Alona and eating way too much at different places, tonight it's a Friday. I am not in a bar. I am not in a club. I am not at Juliana dancing the night away. I am here in my room sitting at the computer. Sometimes that's okay too, right? Well, it has to be if I want the adventure to continue.



Not to say I have been only doing this. Last week Grace came over with her friend Rose and we went to Sunflower Disco. It was a nice place with a couple of live bands that were pretty good. It was all cover tunes, but even on some old school Earth Wind & Fire they did a great job. The problem was that the place was just too damn expensive. Drinks were double the price of what they might be at The Pump or Juliana, other discos I have enjoyed. Going out like that is a good way to run out of money and end up in the street selling bananas.

So I remembered, as I wrote in my post about comic artist Mars Ravelo, "The guy has a list of published works a mile long. I guess what intrigues me is that he has done what I really want to do. Many of his works have been adapted into TV shows and major motion pictures over the years. He has also written movies himself. Looking at that list makes me realize just how much I really need to devote to my own dream if I really want to be successful at what I do." I have started a new comic, but I haven't worked on it since Monday or Tuesday. It's time to get it finished and ready to hit the Japanese market. The real key is after that. I need to do it again, and again and again.

So while I might miss the bars and discos to some degree. I do need to get something done. After all, this may be the first chance I have ever had to do what I really love doing and actually make enough to not only survive, but live well in a place some see as paradise. What more could one want? I have seen the snowball effect starting in Japan. My works have always gone over well with audience, but more people need to know about them. Naturally, the more I create, the more fans I can build. Each work points more people to the previous works. It rolls like a snowball down a steep hill. I want to keep on rolling.