Long time no news post, eh? You know what else has been too long: that chapter 2 theme overstaying its welcome. So out with the old, in with the new! You may notice the logo not being outside of…well everything else, as it usually was. That’s because WordPress and the theme I’m using aren’t liking each other. The creator is making a fix for this (hopefully) – I do know there’ll be an update “soon”. So cross your fingers that the fix I want will happen! I’ll try to wait patiently.

But more importantly, you must be wondering about my wrist. It’s been slowly recovering. There is still pain if I do too much drawing or stuff-other-than-drawing without a break, but it’s not the most unbearable thing on Earth. And when I stopped taking pain pills, the pain didn’t increase – which totally sounds like a good sign to me! But yeah, not sure when I’ll be fully rid of this tendonitis. I’ll keep y’all posted incrementally.

If you didn’t know: Inkblazers will be shutting down next month. I am just as shocked as everyone else about it. (The news post was the day AFTER my birthday – what is this?) So the new mirror will be at Taptastic, which is up to date with this site. It’ll update once a week on Saturdays. So uh, if you wanna check that out: http://www.taptastic.com/glasshearts There are a number of features on that site I’m not fond of (page limits on chapters, double-page spreads not being supported well, etc), so it’s…certainly strictly a mirror to gather more readers. It almost makes me consider going back to using Smackjeeves for a mirror, haha!

I did start on chapter 7, but a number of other projects have been vying for my attention. I am doing something either temporary or will last longer: prints for Vinesauce! What is Vinesauce? A video game streaming team! And more technically, the team “captain”, if you will, is known as Vinesauce. If you want to support me and him and get a RADICAL COOL PRINT, check out the shop! The more people buy, the more chances there’ll be more prints! The other thing I’ve been contributing to is VineRPG, which is a fan-RPG game based on Vinesauce (do you see a trend here?). If you have Windows, you should check out the demo and leave some feedback on that page I linked. I recently helped my sister with a job she had as well. Balancing all of that and helping out around the house and giving my wrist needed breaks…you can see where this is going, haha! I did draw establishing backgrounds for the entire chapter, so that’s one big thing I don’t need to fret over too much. I’ll probably do that from now on. But yeah, soon! I want to start inking soon! Either before or during, I do want to make a new spiffy (promo) illustration. It’ll probably be a print too. Stay tuned for that.

But yeah! Things are still moving. Albeit at a way slower pace than I’d like, but still chugging along.

Happy new year, by the way!

❤︎ Your lovely workaholic author/artist,
Monique C. ( ´ ꒳ ` )✌

Not sure sure how to title this news post, haha.

Earlier this month I was working on chapter 6. My wrist started to hurt and figured it was the usual fatigue and worked through it. But then it persisted and I realized it had to be more than that. So I rested it, put some ice/hot cream on, iced it, pain meds, etc. When all of that didn’t work for roughly a week and a half, I went to the doctor. I got a prescription, which I’m waiting on a refill for. And I’m taking higher than the printed dosage of the aforementioned pain meds.

I was pretty dumb and drew a couple of times after said appointment. This week I realized that I definitely had to stop that. It’s been two days since I last drew. Sometimes I feel like it’s getting better and then other times (like tonight), it doesn’t feel that way. So at the present, I don’t know how long it’s going to take.

Which is why I am typing this now. I have spread out the last 3 pages of the chapter to 3 weeks. (Including this week.) I’ve been feeling a lot of pressure from the original schedule, considering I haven’t drawn the chapter 3 4komas yet. And I haven’t scheduled the pages for chapter 4. And I haven’t done any adverts yet. So yeah. I’m aiming on not drawing or writing for however many weeks it takes. I do want to get back into it within September (or I’ll go insane).

I don’t want to go as far as taking a hiatus. At the very least I will schedule chapter 4 and not have any adverts for whatever updates happen and my wrist isn’t feeling up to par.

I’m really really sorry about this, I really am. This has been among one of the most mentally taxing things I’ve gone through in my life. Drawing and writing are everything to me, and they’ve been a constant in my life. So please bear with me for (hopefully not) a while. Believe me: when wrist is not in pain, I will let y’all know in another news post.

❤︎ Your lovely workaholic author/artist,
Monique C. ( ´_ゝ｀)