2 years ago I got a very cool idea to combine two of my interests: comics and food. I made a few notes in my catch-all notebook and kept revisiting the idea from time to time brainstorming, revising, rethinking how I was going to do it. This month I’ve begun production on the art and recipes and expect to have it complete by this summer.

The procrastination allowed for a few things to happen:

1) I was able to hone the idea, really distill the broad idea down to something manageable, doable, fulfilling and useful.
2) The skills I needed to pull off the project improved in those two years, even if I wasn’t consciously working towards that end.
3) My schedule opened up. This past fall a contract that I spent a lot of time with every month ended, opening my schedule to actually be able to focus on a new (relatively speaking) project.