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“As artists and storytellers, we get so into doing what we’re doing. The thing I have to fight against is overcompensation, which is, ‘I'm gonna do everything!’ You can burn yourself out because what we do is mental exercise, over and over and over with no break. And when I did take a break, I was able to come back with a fresh mind. I had more ideas and that extra wealth of knowledge from a few years off.

When my father passed in 2006, I was working, working, working. It knocked me on my butt. I had an opportunity to move to Atlanta. When I got there, the economic downturn hit. And at that point, I had to stop. My whole brain was done. No new ideas. It’s like getting COVID and you lose your taste. I lost my taste for art. For about a three-year period, I didn’t draw or write that much. I ended up working for Comcast in the sales department.

After a couple years, my guys hit me up and said, ‘We’re starting Lion Forge Comics. We need you to write some books.’ At that point, I hadn’t used that part of my brain for years. Now, mind you, I can’t ever stop it. There’s always some story popping into my head. So I had a whole bunch of stuff I hadn’t acted on, and the creative side of my brain was like, ‘Oh, I’m back in charge?’ ‘You’re back in charge!’ I ended up coming back into my creative self. Now, one of the things I try to recognize is when I’m doing too much. And I tell myself, ‘Take a break. You need to just step back.’” (3/3)

David Gorden, writer, artist, and founder of 4Sight Studio and 4sight_publishing

📷 | Courtesy of David Gorden