What drives you to keep dolling?

I just love doing it. I love that I can sit down and make something amazing without getting frustrated. Yeah, I can do baseless dolls. But I'll be honest - I am a lazy artist. I get so caught up and frustrated in trying to figure out a pose and to get it right, that I eventually lose my drive to draw it in the first place. But sometimes I whip out one of my favorite base sets and just SKETCH. Sometimes they turn into dolls, sometimes they just sit there.

For me, what keeps me "active" other than dolling itself is MDE. I literally come back from whatever self-imposed or accidental hiatus I have every year to do it. It's sort of like the NaNo of dolling for me. No matter what, I find time to write in November, even if I haven't written in six weeks.

I think you hit it on the head though - it's not about "keeping the community alive". It's like anything. If people are determined to do it, they'll do it, no matter where they have to. All the forums closed? People will gather on dA. dA sucks now? We'll move to Tmblr. Tmblr is filled with stupid stuff? We'll find something else, then, too. If people are determined to do it, they'll do it.

You can't keep a group alive if the members are dead. When people die off ALL THE TIME and then come back ALL THE TIME and talk about how dolling is dying... well, no duh. 

Here's my opinion, short and sweet: If you don't want dolling to die - stay active.

You can't get pregnant if you don't have sex. You can't have a community if you're not involved in it.