ERNESTINA: You ever get so excited about an idea that you can't think of anything else? / It takes over. It crowds every other thought from your mind. It demands attention, regardless of its actual merit as an idea - in fact, that's impossible to determine. It's too new!
CHARLES: Sure, but the feeling passes. I've learned to wait it out - if it's really a good idea, then it'll still be a week later.
ERNESTINA: But that's the problem! The enthusiasm is only good for about a day. So you can wait it out until it joins the interminable list of "Good Ideas You'll Never Do" - or you can just spend that energy. Dive in. Just try something. / Better to do something with passion that turns out misguided, than carefully decide to do nothing at all.
CHARLES: That is a very nice-sounding theory that I'm not convinced is actually true. / That is how countries start wars. / Do you ever finish any of the crazy things you dive into?
ERNESTINA: I'd love to, but who has the time?
[[The Dodos break into the panel from the left side and shout as one:]]
THE DODOS: WE HAVE THE TIME
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{{Alt-text: Enthusiastic ideas are like crappy rewards points. You earn them fair and square, but then they expire faster than you think.}}
Enthusiastic ideas are like crappy rewards points. You earn them fair and square, but then they expire faster than you think.
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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