John Ward speaks wisdom. And so do these comic strips.
Making is, indeed, better than complaining. My first semipro sale was of a story I wrote because I read one and thought it could have been done much better. One of my best books has the same backstory.
Originally shared by John Ward
If you do any type of creative work, please click this link. It will help you. It doesn’t matter if you’re an artist, a writer, a programmer, or a stay-at-home parent trying to figure out some innovative way to get your kids to eat broccoli, the comics posted on the linked webpage will help you flip your point of view and see things in a new light. It’s brilliant, brilliant stuff and deserves to be shared with anyone who struggles with these issues.
Here’s the link:
http://tozozozo.tumblr.com/tagged/not%2Fbut
Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
This is fantastic. I need to print out a ton of these as reminder to myself.