Maybe “cleaning house” isn’t the right term. Streamlining? Attempting to be more efficient with my free time? Making myself “scalable”? Well, whatever terminology could be used to describe it, the fact of the matter is I’m cutting away some side-projects.

I’ve realized recently that I spend a lot of time doing things that I no longer enjoy, and the time I spend on those things takes away from the time I spend with my family or doing things I DO enjoy. I also have a lot of things on my plate that I just haven’t been doing anything with, and just need to be swept away. At least for a while.

So, starting this Friday, I’ll be ending my relationship with Evil Avatar Webcomics. That’s right, I’ll no longer be drawing the comic that only EvAv members can understand. But that should be all right, because soon we’ll be seeing more work from our two new resident artists, Tricky Thumb and joshkdmw. And their stuff is solid, so I have no worries leaving that establishment behind.

On a related note, also on the chopping block is webcomics in general. I’m no longer going to spend my lunch breaks perusing a hundred webcomics every day. I’m going to pick a handful to check up on periodically (such as PvP, Penny Arcade, Starslip Crisis, Sheldon, and a few other personal favorites). I’ll probably also still keep Fleen and Comixpedia in my RSS feeds and check on them every once in a while. This removal of webcomics from my cerebral cortex also has the unfortunate side-effect of displacing my involvement in Zoinks! Magazine. I loved working with Bill Charbonneau, and writing about webcomics was a sincere love of mine. But these things need to just get out of the way. I need to refocus, and pushing webcomics to the back are a big part of moving forward.

I’ve also removed links to such projects as the Nerdblog Network (which is one of those things I never really did anything with), and my dusty sketchblog (also something I did nothing with). I might get back to the sketchblog, but since I’m really not doing any drawing these days, it really makes no sense to maintain it.

So, for now, I’m left with gaming and writing. I’ll be forcing myself to get back to doing some serious writing, not just some snippets of content over at Ficlets. As I get more stuff generated, I’ll be pointing it out over here.

And that’s pretty much where my life is at the moment! Well, that, and playing Super Paper Mario.