A little lifehack that popped up on Hacker News yesterday: Knock off work at 5pm. Period. The idea is that every time you’re tempted to slack off, you’ll remember that you CAN’T MAKE IT UP IN THE EVENING, and save the slack for later.
It worked pretty well for my first try; I was able to keep myself focused and take the latest page of Rita from one panel and roughs to completely done – and that’s including a super-complicated background in one panel. Which you can bet I’ll be reusing. We’ll see if it continues to work…
It probably helped that I saw a retweet about someone saying that “BE ATTITUDE FOR GAINS” was going to be their new motto for doing comics. So I found myself some screenshots of the boss encounters from Radiant Silvergun, made one my backdrop, and put on the soundtrack to R-Type. (And snagged the Radiant Silvergun soundtrack later on when that was done.) It did pretty good at reminding me to STAY ON TASK.
(I also dyed my hair. Back to red – having Twilight Sparkle’s hair was fun for a while, but red’s going to help fight the winter blahs much better!)