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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Trait Number 1:
Simplicity.
Don't go biting off more than you can chew. It's a lot easier to drop a project you know is going to take a long time and a lot of effort to finish than if you know for a fact that you can finish it. If you want to do a complex project like a graphic novel, start with a different project that's more simple to test the waters, like a short story comic.
Trait Number 2:
Learn something new, but not too much.
If you're starting the project to develop a certain skill, make sure that all the surrounding details of the project are things you are already very familiar and comfortable with. For example, I need to develop my skill in drawing backgrounds. I'm making a flash game where I am going to draw all the backgrounds. But if I didn't already know how to write all the code for a flash game, this wouldn't be a good project. I would be so distracted learning coding, I might give up before I even get to the backgrounds. A good alternative might be a comic.
Trait Number 3:
Know exactly what you're going to do before you start.
The more clearly planned out the project is, the better idea you have of your next step. If your working on a project and you don't know what your next step is its really easy to never bother figuring out the next step, and instead just move on to a different project. Using my flash game for an example: I already know the names and identities of all my NPC characters, I've written a script for everything that they say, and I know every detail of the story line of the game. Now I know my next step is to design/draw each of those non-player characters.
Trait Number 4:
MAKE SURE IT'S FUN!
That's what I've been doing to my project. Even it isn't finished, it's making much better progress than what I've done/scrapped before.
but thank you for advicing : )