Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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creating manga
Creating a graphic novel and putting it out there for everyone to read is at times—a scary experience. Every time I put out the latest update, I can’t help feeling nervous. Here are the top six fears I have while working on my current graphic novel.
1. Fire. Fires in any form alarm me. I’m like: what if my pages catch on fire, or if my computer is engulfed in flames—then I’ll have to redo some pages, and rewrite the plot scripts, and go shopping for a new computer…ugh, what a pain.
2. Artwork not improving. I fear reaching a stopping point where my art isn’t getting much better, and at the same time, it isn’t great.
3. Killing the plot. I may make a mistake in planning what happens next, and the reader’s interest is effectively killed, and they’ll be like “Reading this is a waste.” That would suck.
4. Losing motivation. One day I wake up, and I’m like, “I don’t feeling doing Mascara anymore. I quit.” I really don’t want that to happen. I still feel good about the story right now. Let’s hope that continues.
5. Not being able to write any more graphic novels after Mascara. I’m afraid that this graphic novel is all I’m able to churn out, and nothing after it—plotwise--could be as good. I’ll just hope that by then my artwork will be good enough to mask a weaker plot. Or better yet—I’ll hope that I’ll still have the ability to think of unique stories.
6. Alien space monkeys. If alien space monkeys break into my house, they’ll eat all the pages I haven’t scanned yet while I’m sleeping, because to them, paper tastes like bananas. And then I would have to redraw those pages all over again, and I’ll be late updating my comic.
Fears
1. Fire. Fires in any form alarm me. I’m like: what if my pages catch on fire, or if my computer is engulfed in flames—then I’ll have to redo some pages, and rewrite the plot scripts, and go shopping for a new computer…ugh, what a pain.
2. Artwork not improving. I fear reaching a stopping point where my art isn’t getting much better, and at the same time, it isn’t great.
3. Killing the plot. I may make a mistake in planning what happens next, and the reader’s interest is effectively killed, and they’ll be like “Reading this is a waste.” That would suck.
4. Losing motivation. One day I wake up, and I’m like, “I don’t feeling doing Mascara anymore. I quit.” I really don’t want that to happen. I still feel good about the story right now. Let’s hope that continues.
5. Not being able to write any more graphic novels after Mascara. I’m afraid that this graphic novel is all I’m able to churn out, and nothing after it—plotwise--could be as good. I’ll just hope that by then my artwork will be good enough to mask a weaker plot. Or better yet—I’ll hope that I’ll still have the ability to think of unique stories.
6. Alien space monkeys. If alien space monkeys break into my house, they’ll eat all the pages I haven’t scanned yet while I’m sleeping, because to them, paper tastes like bananas. And then I would have to redraw those pages all over again, and I’ll be late updating my comic.
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A very interesting and entertaining read. About your fears:
ReplyDelete1. Yes, fires are scary. I sometimes worry about what a fire would do to my collection of nearly 5000 plastic Star Wars minifigures.
2. Fear not! You're artwork definitely continues to improve. I know how this is though. I feel that my own artwork has sort of reached a plateau.
3. Yeah, that's always a worry when it comes to writing stories, but I think you're doing really well so far.
4. Yeah, I have a novel I've left abandoned for quite some time now, but I do plan to finish it eventually. Sometimes writers just need to recharge their batteries.
5. As good as Mascara is, I'm sure you'll have other good ideas afterwards too. For myself, I find that I have more ideas than I have time to write.
6. Curse those alien space monkeys!
^_^
Woah. That's a lot of Star Wars mini figures!! XD
ReplyDeleteWoah, alien space monkeys? I'm afraid that some sort of moster thing will come and swallow my work in the middle of the night. :O
ReplyDeleteI can relate, too. Tried writing a story, and then I had all these ideas, but then I was worried about the pace of things, and how I wouldn't have ideas for the next story...ugh.
I hate it when things get so complicated...
Well as a recent fan, I say, Keep on drawing and writing storylines, because I will not think, "Reading this is a waste."
I'll think, "Ohmygosh there's anewchapterout mustreadnow!" :D