On Timing

     Why are you reading this? It doesn’t have any silly pictures. You know there’s a comic, right? Up there? The first link? Cool.

     Okay, so here’s the thing. It’s happening. Some of you, of course, will know what I’m referring to almost immediately. (The comic, I’m referring to the comic.) I’ve been talking about making it for a while now, and I’ve had a rather distressing realization. You know that one friend who always says that they’re working on something, be it a novel, a screenplay, or those cabinets that have been sitting on the kitchen floor for as long as you can remember?  Yeah, turns out I'm that guy. I didn’t mean to be, but here we are.

It probably goes like this for a lot of people (I hope):

     1. You have an idea of something you want to do, and immediately get super excited about it.

     2. You don’t tell anyone at first, because you've heard people that talk about something and don’t produce anything. Hoo-boy that’s annoying.

     3. You work on it for a bit, but nothing you make makes you as excited as the initial idea did.

     4. You proceed to throw a lot of stuff out, because man, it’s just terrible.

     5. Here comes the brilliant idea: Tell someone that you’re working on it so that you’re held responsible for actually producing the thing you wanted to make in the first place. Genius!

     6. Repeat 3 and 4. Now you’re making it for someone else. It has to be better than this. Ugh.

     7. Telling someone felt good though, and they seemed to respond well to that dumb joke. Maybe try telling someone else?

     8. Shit. Why’d you go and do that again?! 3. 4. 3. 4. 3. 4. 3. 4. Throw some 5s and 7s in there for balance and you got a real broth of bullshit goin’.

     9. The more you stir broth the better it gets, right? That seems like a thing I heard somewhere…

     10. Wait, now all these people want stew, AND a comic? This isn’t going very well at all.

     11. Write a weird list that doesn’t make any sense and just sort of meanders around hoping that everyone will forget and move on with their fulfilling lives that are probably better off without the stew that probably got stirred too much anyway. The internet loves lists. Can’t get enough of ‘em.

     12. Realize no one actually gives a damn. Who do you think you are                         12.5. Look up if it’s realise or realize… Huh. English is weird, right guys?

     13. Just post something! It’s really objectively more than nothing. Hey, hopefully it’ll get better.

Or something along those lines, anyway.  

     So now we come back to timing. How do I know that now is the perfect time to start Jester’s Truth? Easy. My family, my friends, as well as some folks with the pleasure of sitting within earshot of me in a bar or cafe, already know all the storylines and jokes. Frankly I’m just annoying them now. Similarly to you, I’m sure, if you’ve read this far. Some of you are probably still bouncing around somewhere in that list of nonsense. Hey, we can’t choose our demographics. I’ll take what I can get. *wink* Seriously, it means so much to me.

     Maybe read the comic now, if you want, but it’s your life. So… Whatever you wanna do.
     

     There’ll be a new page up Tuesday though, so why not come back and check it out?

-Wayne