Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective. The podcast about illustration, how to do it,

how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker.

I'm Lee White. And I'm Anthony Wheeler. Gentlemen, how do you feel about doing a mailbag episode?

We're reading a bunch of questions from the audience. Does that sound good? That sounds great. I love our audience questions. I have a question that I'm going to start with today. This comes to us from our friend Mabel, and this question is specifically for Jake. But Mabel will take a little bit of advice from Lee and I, if possible. The question goes,

I've written a couple of novels, but I found my true passion is making comics and graphic novels.

I have so many ideas for stories that are quickly piling up. I've made three 20 to 40 page short

story comics, and I really want to make one of the longer story ideas that I have, but it feels like a

huge commitment. I'm afraid of committing to a story that could potentially take years to make

when I have too many to choose from. How do I get past the FOMO and just get to work?

Yes, I know exactly how she feels. And honestly, you guys probably know this feeling too.

Just replace graphic novel with or comic with, you know, gallery show or children's book or

whatever sort of project it is. Here's my solution for this. Because graphic novels do take,

if it's a 250 pager,

you know,

if it's,

if it's,

you know,

if you're doing something like Craig Thompson

and it's like 500 pages,

like that is a commitment.

And it could take years to do.

So here's what I would say.

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