Scrapped the zine layout again tonight. This is the fourth version since August and I didn’t even get past page three before I started thinking maybe the whole thing should be about textures instead of individual pieces, which is exactly the kind of thought that got me here in the first place.
I had a lamp I picked up for $8 photographed and captioned and everything, had the little blurb about where I found it, and then I just… started wondering if the zine should be chronological instead. So now there’s a folder called zine_v4 sitting next to zine_v3, zine_v2, and the original one I never renamed.
Client work picked back up this week too, which doesn’t help. 3 days of edits back to back and by the time I’m free in the evening I don’t want to make decisions, I just want to look at what I already have and move something half an inch.
I think I know what the actual problem is. I’m scared of picking a version and having it be wrong, so I keep picking a new one instead, because a new idea can’t fail yet.
Not asking for the fix here. Just tired of opening the same four folders and closing them again.