The Road Ahead
Over the next week I plan to spend much more time on the overall site design and layout for fireflygrove.com. I’ve been putting it off “until things are perfect,” which gets you in the trouble of making things perfect for way too long. Of course, things will never be perfect. I can spend days and weeks and months slowly learning CSS and HTML and PHP and layout skills, the entire time excited to one day implement these skills. But that “one day” is something you have to make happen now, or it never will.
A goal of mine is to have the main fireflygrove.com page be a portal between this blog and a few others. As of right now, I haven’t touched it (the main page) in almost three weeks. This neglect has to stop! So, expect more changes in that front (in the near/immediate future) instead of me keeping up with Illustrator stuff as I have been.
Some general timelines for my goals: by Friday April 28 I will have fireflygrove.com updated to the point where it points to this blog, my journal blog, and my forthcoming guitar/songbook blog. I’m not concerned with how pretty or “perfect” any of these pages are — I just want to get them up. Once them up, I’m quite sure, the ideas and further improvement will come.
By Friday May 5 I will have my first “story scene” created in Illustrator. Up until now I’ve only put together characters and items. This has been great, but I’m finding my inner-self yearning to fully piece together a “scene” as visualized from my story/mythology project.
I’m sure other stuff will be done in the meantime, but these are my self-imposed deadlines. I have bound myself to these and will produce results.