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Mar. 25 '08

I don't remember exactly what day I started this comic on, but I think it's safe to say that I've been working on it for a whole month now. There's something eerily ironic the way I did this piece to poke fun at myself for my constant procrastination and my short attention span, and how this very piece suffered both of these.

In fact, I will admit that this piece was originally intended to be longer, featuring more characters, and has had about four different punchlines over the past month. There's been enough injuries, distractions and otherwise nuisances to make me shorten it though. It was also originally going to feature the shading style I'd used for my new Dev ID. Due to the issues my computer's been having lately though, I opted to keep the colors flat (which I think fortunately still worked pretty well here for some unknown reason). I think this project may've been too busy and complicated for this ancient machine since I already almost broke it once trying to enter text. In the future, I'll need to get a new computer. Until then, I can probably still do comic pieces, just not ones that are quite so big like this I suppose.

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Anywho, you'd probably like to know what's going on here. I have never had any doubt in my ability to be creative or to tell a story. And anyone who's ever read my work (or had me give an in-depth synopsis to them) has been in total agreement. But recently (even though it's been going on for years, it's really hitting home recently), I've been getting extremely frustrated with myself for my inability to commit to any one project. At present, there are roughly 20 or so stories that I feel are good enough to tell. I love them all. I've spent a great deal of time on each. I not only want to, but feel I'm obligated to tell many of them. But for some reason, I just can't finish (or in some cases, start) any of them.

The comic here is basically a gathering of several of my original characters protesting against their creator (me). I don't actually think ANYONE will recognize every single one of these characters. Some of my watchers will probably know a few from previous pieces; my offline friends may know a few more, but I know there are couple I've told no one about. Though I did try really hard to make sure that despite the obscurity of the characters, the joke wouldn't be lost. I hope I succeeded.

Also, for those of you hardcore geeks who think they've found glaring discrepancies:
- "Lavender Town" is the official name of my NaNoWriMo project. When you can't think of a title for your story, the name of the location of the story works just fine... especially in this instance, when I don't think there's any such place in real life.
- Some people may know "Rozzy Johnsten" better as Kelley Johnsten. For a multitude of reasons, many of the characters in "Bleak Divinity" have undergone name changes. I won't go into it here though since it'll make this already too long blurb longer and it's fairly irrelevant to the actual comic.

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So, let me just say comments are especially important to me on this piece. Do you have any critique on the art or the writing? Was it funny or too obscure? Should I never do something like this again, or would you guys like to see more of these characters? Are there any aspiring writers out there who know what I'm going through? Any advice?

I went through a lot to get this piece up, at least dignify me with some acknowledgement. Positive or negative, I want to hear it.

Description
Mar. 25 '08

I don't remember exactly what day I started this comic on, but I think it's safe to say that I've been working on it for a whole month now. There's something eerily ironic the way I did this piece to poke fun at myself for my constant procrastination and my short attention span, and how this very piece suffered both of these.

In fact, I will admit that this piece was originally intended to be longer, featuring more characters, and has had about four different punchlines over the past month. There's been enough injuries, distractions and otherwise nuisances to make me shorten it though. It was also originally going to feature the shading style I'd used for my new Dev ID. Due to the issues my computer's been having lately though, I opted to keep the colors flat (which I think fortunately still worked pretty well here for some unknown reason). I think this project may've been too busy and complicated for this ancient machine since I already almost broke it once trying to enter text. In the future, I'll need to get a new computer. Until then, I can probably still do comic pieces, just not ones that are quite so big like this I suppose.

***

Anywho, you'd probably like to know what's going on here. I have never had any doubt in my ability to be creative or to tell a story. And anyone who's ever read my work (or had me give an in-depth synopsis to them) has been in total agreement. But recently (even though it's been going on for years, it's really hitting home recently), I've been getting extremely frustrated with myself for my inability to commit to any one project. At present, there are roughly 20 or so stories that I feel are good enough to tell. I love them all. I've spent a great deal of time on each. I not only want to, but feel I'm obligated to tell many of them. But for some reason, I just can't finish (or in some cases, start) any of them.

The comic here is basically a gathering of several of my original characters protesting against their creator (me). I don't actually think ANYONE will recognize every single one of these characters. Some of my watchers will probably know a few from previous pieces; my offline friends may know a few more, but I know there are couple I've told no one about. Though I did try really hard to make sure that despite the obscurity of the characters, the joke wouldn't be lost. I hope I succeeded.

Also, for those of you hardcore geeks who think they've found glaring discrepancies:
- "Lavender Town" is the official name of my NaNoWriMo project. When you can't think of a title for your story, the name of the location of the story works just fine... especially in this instance, when I don't think there's any such place in real life.
- Some people may know "Rozzy Johnsten" better as Kelley Johnsten. For a multitude of reasons, many of the characters in "Bleak Divinity" have undergone name changes. I won't go into it here though since it'll make this already too long blurb longer and it's fairly irrelevant to the actual comic.

***

So, let me just say comments are especially important to me on this piece. Do you have any critique on the art or the writing? Was it funny or too obscure? Should I never do something like this again, or would you guys like to see more of these characters? Are there any aspiring writers out there who know what I'm going through? Any advice?

I went through a lot to get this piece up, at least dignify me with some acknowledgement. Positive or negative, I want to hear it.