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The past few days have been rather intense–I’ve been meeting people, writing things (mostly non-fiction, for freelance gigs and whatnot), some editing etc.. The contrast between this and the last weeks, no, actually months of doing much less that I could is surprising; I don’t even know whether in a good or a bad way. [...]

I’m 31 pages deep into my graphic novel, and it is still going well. Not “OMG this is going so well!” well, but “I can do this if I write four pages every day, and I can write four pages every day. I am determined to. Also, I’m going through a funny phase. It actually [...]

This far, I’ve done very well – 18 pages in two days is a good record. Well, that’s partly thanks to planning and outlining (index cards are actually very helpful when scriptwriting… I never found them this useful when noveling, probably because the scenes are way shorter and I need a small kick to keep [...]

And it started on an awesome note – I managed to talk my sister (who is nine years younger than me and a gifted artist) into drawing my ScriptFrenzy comic. Well, it didn’t take much talking since she was very excited from the first few words. I really hope that this turns out well (ie [...]

So, I decided I’ll do it, basically because it seemed so silly, and because I am so unprepared, and, most of all, because I figured I could do a graphic novel on the disease story I was working on. Yea, graphic novel. That was just the sort of a wild idea that makes me do [...]