December plans

[gs_silva]

The month when everybody has to run a writing event because it's November is over now. I participated in 3. There was ushobwri progress reporting plus thoughtful questions each day. There were two on Discord: one character development question of the day, which served me well as prompts for the daily comic. And one that was a lot of writing sprints, sooo many writing sprints, and other activities too but I was mostly doing the sprints.




Now I have a backlog of prompts to work from, and Alien Romance also has an internally cohesive linear plot line, so I'll be catching up from all that November overload. The original November novel-writing event (which I don't need explained to me - I was involved to the explosively bitter end, and I don't want to talk about it; it's over now and it's nobody's business) had a structure of "write frenetically now; edit later!" But that doesn't work for me. What does anyone care when I edit? For the most part, people let me be me, but I ended up quitting two Discord groups because people were super weird about my writing process (or writing processes in general).




We won't do that here.

I guess one good thing about November writing blitzes being decentralized is that fewer people will be rules lawyers at me. Maybe very few at all. (Some people will be rules lawyers till the day they die, but without an entity they can perceive as a 'universal standard' it's just them against me, and I can just leave)




This is some of my very worst art from the early pages. I drew this 5 years ago, and some of the problem was my scanner. It had a tendency to blur the image, and when it got into a mood, there was nothing I could do to coax it back into doing its job. I'm trying not to fix it too much. It's a potential rabbit hole each and every time. There's no such thing as 'done'. I have to tear myself away from it each time.