write a graphic novel

Well, I guess that was inevitable (I mean, hey I’m writing a script, not a novel, although this script is likely to hit 50k words eventually). I’m happy I’m writing again, though. While I have nowhere near enough time to write 50k by the end of the month, I am surprised that I’ve had time to write at all, given my current circumstances. So, good times.

In solidarity with my NaNo brethren, I am going to try and finish the script to my comic. I don’t imagine I’ll be able to do it, but I hope I’ll at least get somewhere with it.

O hai. I haven’t written about this in a while because there’s not been much to report on my end in terms of progress. But along the way I’ve been asking a couple of creators for advice, and if it could all be summed up into one sound bite, the number one piece of advice I’ve been given is to finish what I start. And that is what I was planning to do in earnest last month when I finally used up some of the vacation time I had for my first vacation ever since I graduated from school… and then my endocrine system went haywire and I spent that week going to the doctor for various tests and whatnot. And the rest of my vacation time this year will be spent on semi-obligatory family things, so basically I blew my first shot to make a dent in this script in four years, and my next shot at a similar opportunity is a year away.

I’m getting gray hairs over this. Right now I need the health insurance this uberstressful and unhappy job provides in order to survive, but what I really need eventually is a different job in a completely different industry, maybe even something part-time, if I want to get this done on something less than a geologic time scale.