lookingland

so i sat down this morning thinking to myself: okay, enough of this hopscotching around, maybe i should hunker down and draw a real sequential start to finish and see what i can learn from the process.

so i started looking for something to draw ~ anything ~ and realized that i have never been very good at writing short stories and have only written a small handful of them over my writing life (that's more than 20 years). the ones i have written are not only pretty poor to begin with, but also would make for poor translation to the comic form.

so here i am with nothing to draw. how'd that happen?

what i need: a short stand-alone script that will be visually interesting.

the thought of generating such a script off the top of my head is daunting to say the least. i think i have short-storyitis or short-storyphobia perhaps.

how do we solve this?: steal a story from within a larger work. surely i can burp a little self-contained scenario from one of my books and make it into a three or five page story. i've cannibalized before and it's worked okay (even won an award with a story extracted from From Slaughter's Mountain a while back).

maybe this is a good time to take another running leap at Razi-el's Dream using this straightforward comic style. i've tried it in two other styles and failed. maybe i ought to see what it would look like in this one.

okay, i'm off to explore. it's 12:30 now. i'll be back at 3:30 to post the results.

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