Ah… Well, i woudn’t go far as to say everything is perfect – i’m not really happy with wednesday’s comic, kimiko looks far cuter in glasses than she came off in this comic, something i’ll show a little clearer in a future comic (i can’t believe so many people think she wears bifocals – meh.) but the little break helped me get the story rolling in my head again – something that has been lacking for a few weeks.

It’s kinda weird, but there are definitely times when i write and draw megatokyo comics and there is almost no concept of the story in my head. No amount of notes, outlines, synopsises, scripts or anything can give you the ‘feel’ of a story. A mechanical story without feel is like a skeletal remains – there’s no flesh to it, no life. Nothing sucks worse than to have to do comics when you can’t feel them. I’m starting to get a feel for it all again, which is good. I swear, my work life is like this huge barge i keep trying to drive up a river that’s too narrow and too shallow to navigate.

I think i’m also being somewhat effected by the havoc wrought by the hurricane down south – our hearts go out to everyone of you who has been effected by the storm, and Sarah and I are thinking about what charities we can link people to who want to try to help. Watching that storm was like watching someone shoot someone else in the face, the fact that you could see it coming and you knew it was going to be bad… and it’s made me feel pretty sad over the past few days.

More stuff later. I have a lot of stuff rattling around in my head that needs to be cleared out. Rant time.

- pirotunes: As One – Freefall -

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Posted by fredrin on August 30th, 2005 :: Filed under Daily Blogging

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Ok, that will teach me to take a day off.

Actually, i really can’t blame this on a day off, other than maybe i should have done some serious work on story dev saturday night instead of watching anime… oh well, hindsight, as they say. I hate missing comics, but there was definitely something not right with today’s script.

This is actually not unusual for the first 20 or so comics of a chapter. Ideas are still formulating, i’m still getting up to speed with things, etc. I tried to take care of much of this before i started the chapter, but Otakon really cut into my story dev time, and its showing. I have struggled with the past few comics, and this one… meh. I need to sit down with the story some more and finish my story structure. In-service day time

Whenever i have to backtrack like this, it always feels like i wasted my time on stuff that i wont be using, or i feel frustrated about having material that i won’t be using… but the thing is, its not really a waste of time. It’s the tossed ideas that somehow get you to the ideas you eventually use. You can’t be afraid to toss ideas when they don’t feel right, or to make hard decisions about actually tossing something when it doesn’t work

It’s just better if you can do it a few days BEFORE you are supposed to post something.

- pirotunes: David Sylvian & Holger Czukay – Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing) -

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Posted by fredrin on August 29th, 2005 :: Filed under Daily Blogging

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