nyaatrap wrote:I'm doing programming, drawing, and writing all, and I found it's mainly condition issue. Sometimes drawing is hard, sometimes writing is tough, sometimes programing is tiresome. I don't know when, but I know there is a time one is bad and one is good. There must be some logic behind, but I don't know yet, so it looks like those are random waves.
Yeah, I'm wearing all of those hats too (and if there were time, I'd be doing music, too, but I can say that would be significantly harder for me than the other three; I don't have much practice at composing).
There are times for all of them when it's easy and times when it's hard. It feels easiest (for any of them) when I get going into a flow, and I can stay focused for a long time getting things done, drafting, tweaking, perfecting. I'd say that in a "flow" stage the programming is the easiest for me, probably because I do it professionally... however, it also tends to be the most frustrating when I hit a stumbling block, especially when I know something can be done but can't figure out the exact right syntax for it. ("OHHHHHH, it's style.window.left_padding, NOT style.window.padding_left!") It tends to have the hardest stumbling blocks.
Art takes me a long time. This is partly because I never practiced getting fast, and I don't practice that frequently. However, because I did a lot of drawing in the past, it doesn't take me that long to improve once I sit down with it. For NaNoRenO, I decided to try something new: vector graphics for my characters (after designing them on paper). I went with this because I have not done a lot of computer drawing in the past. It feels like its taken me less time to learn technique and more time fine-tuning what's there.
The nice thing about (creative) writing is that I can "work on it" anywhere -- in the car, in the shower, etc. If I'm stuck at a certain part, I can brainstorm at times like that. I'll skip around to the parts I feel inspired to write. Sometimes the hardest part is putting together the pieces.... and not every part is always interesting to write, either. I never really run out of ideas, but the necessary glue to hold the ideas together can be a stumbling block. That and taking a lot of time on the first draft trying to think of just the right way to word things. I should leave more of it to the revision, because it's going to get revised anyway, but, oh well.
On the bright side, if I'm sick/bored of working on one type of thing, I can always switch to another.
