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Yesterday (well into the bittersweet celebration of finishing “all flowers must live”), I muttered (or at least loudly thought), “It is really about the fact that every time something dies inside you, you start killing things around you; and no amount of illusions is going to heal that”. Of course, I had no idea about [...]

This morning, I finally wrote the final two pages of Flowers. I rather like the ending (with a gently jarring, unfulfilled note), and all in all I am obviously way too happy about this comic. Especially considering that I have little idea what to do with it later. But for now, celebrate! (With another long, [...]

Here we go. The past week is catching up on me eventually, and I have very little choice in what to do. I guess my mode of operation will be “to hang on until I can’t hang on any more and see what happens then”. This has actually worked quite fine before, so probably it’ll [...]

My Trusted reader and friend Russell arrived in Riga on Friday, and this is the first day when I actually have enough time and energy to post something. He’s just as great in person as in e-mails and Skype (really, need I have worried?). Also, I have almost finished the Flowers (will restart working on [...]

Last Saturday, I spent a beautiful day with Emma Jones, and am still digesting her book, slowly, a poem-on-poem basis. Emma is one of those people with whom I reach immediate contact—and have no way of adequately expressing it afterwards; or maybe I’m afraid to talk about it too much lest I shatter that gentle [...]

All this weekend I have been planning extensively, and right now I am feeling pretty good about all this NaNoWriMo thing. A fun, self-paced, moderately relaxed worldbuilding is much like what I guess fitness should be like: adding to places which felt too thin, getting the tangles out and reshaping plot lumps to more manageable, [...]

After returning from Tricon I spent a horrible amount of time recovering. Tricon was great, and the experience I got there was worth it, but still I have to find a way to work consistently even after receiving a large amount of information and emotions. (That is sort of funny, come to think of it–that [...]

Things I’ve done: – worked quite a bit on Vega revision (although the real value of this is still unknown; ie I have very little idea whether I will be able to put that thing in shape and how long it will take), – worked a bit on Newil planning, – worked a bit on [...]

Today, I finally put the end to the chapter 4 of Flowers. All the main players are in the key location (except for the dark horse, Daniel, who’s about to make his move very, very soon). And it’s fun. I don’t know at what point had I decided that everything I write has to be [...]

I added several pages on All Flowers Must Live today, perking up a little sagging plot twist today. I am profoundly surprised at how easy it is to write comixes when I definitely don’t have enough in me to write something even a bit more substantial. The short dialogues and sketchy description is what I’m [...]