The itch to draw, it's back again...

Every few months, it seems, I get an itch to draw things. From spaceships to abstracts, I've tried allot before, but every time so far, I loose my interest within a few months (one of my more annoying flaws I think).

The itch is back again... this time it's itching me to get back to working on my webcomic idea, whispering some new possibilities into my ear and holding the shadow of a grand story before me.

The trouble is not that I don't like to draw, completely the opposite actually. I would love to draw, crappy as it might be, but every time I've started on a webcomic or other project like it, I loose interest or get fed up with it a month or so down the road, after the itch has left again, the muse is looking at the job offerings and I can't get myself to sit down with a pencil in my hand anymore.

After a few cycles like that, it kinda gets predictable and depressing to look at...
But still, I've got a forgotten worlds universe and story lead from the last cycle that I'm considering restarting.

A few weeks ago I did a few calculations about the world in there and I almost dropped of my chair, the not-so-big world I thought it would be turned out to be gigantic.
Think of an advanced dyson sphere reaching out more or less to where in sol the asteriod belt is, now fill it with air, floating islands and enough soft field tech to keep the air presure constant and the solar radiation from being dangerous*. You could probably have thousands of different earth size populations living inside and still have room left.

* The trick would be to first get the air inside spinning, so all the air etc. molecules are orbiting the sun and not just falling into it. Rotate the air faster the closer it is to the sun and you should be able to have a constant gravity effect towards the outer shell. The soft fields would be a variation of force fields, but instead of thin, hard walls, they would be verry thick area's that you woulden't even feel, slowly pushing the various air masses arround. All powered by that massive powerplant in the middle called a star.

On slightly related news, the story 'The killer Queens of Morugon' got turned down by 365 Tomorrows.
Their response had the following to say.

In order to be effective, Flash Fiction needs to engage you in the action of the story from the first or second word, the writing needs to show primarily, and only tell where absolutely necessary. This is entirely telling, with the promise of a show at the end, and I'm afraid that doesn't work.

If you were to use this as your own back story, and write an action piece that takes place in this world, you'd have a much better chance of success. This could work as the buildup to a longer story, but I'm afraid it's just not suitable as a Flash piece.

They probably have a good point there, but it got me thinking of dropping flash fiction for now, getting rid of the 600 word limits and just writing until it's done on my next pieces.