workflow fiddling
Jun. 21st, 2009 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashThe other day I sat down and cleaned off my computer's desktop. Took every single file or directory that was sitting out on it and put it somewhere in my filesystem, or tossed it. Then I changed my backdrop from my own art to some photographs of deserts I got off of Flickr. Then I started hiding the dock for good measure.
I am now trying to only have one program visible at a time. I don't know why I'm doing this; I just am. I'll say this: it's nice to only ever see the new mail count on the icon when I feel like switching programs, instead of having it change in the corner of the screen when it checks mail once an hour. One less distraction from that precious, easily-interruptable state of creative focus.
I dunno if it's helped. But it's different, and it's making whatever part of my brain wanted it this way happier.
Meanwhile I've almost got the most panel-packed page of the first chapter of Absinthe done. Nine panels is a lot of work - 1889 paths versus the 1603 of the super-detailed city spread that takes up pages 10/11, and I still have the last panel to do. This comic is a hell of a lot of work but it's not as if I could let someone else handle the Illustrator part of things. [edit: finished it, 2173 paths. Wow.]
I am now trying to only have one program visible at a time. I don't know why I'm doing this; I just am. I'll say this: it's nice to only ever see the new mail count on the icon when I feel like switching programs, instead of having it change in the corner of the screen when it checks mail once an hour. One less distraction from that precious, easily-interruptable state of creative focus.
I dunno if it's helped. But it's different, and it's making whatever part of my brain wanted it this way happier.
Meanwhile I've almost got the most panel-packed page of the first chapter of Absinthe done. Nine panels is a lot of work - 1889 paths versus the 1603 of the super-detailed city spread that takes up pages 10/11, and I still have the last panel to do. This comic is a hell of a lot of work but it's not as if I could let someone else handle the Illustrator part of things. [edit: finished it, 2173 paths. Wow.]
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Date: 2009-06-21 03:12 pm (UTC)I'm finding that has the same benefits of FOCUS.
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Date: 2009-06-21 06:36 pm (UTC)I'll save you from M!
[tries to think how to do that]
[aha!]
[gives you a pair of ruby slippers]
Put these on, click your heels together three times and say, "Anti-M! Anti-M! There's no place like home!"