No Style No. 23: Perhaps less obvious than oblivious.
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Those of you who remember my old comic are probably quite familiar with that threat to stab someone with a pencil. Hell, I probably still have the icon of it lying around my hard drive somewhere; at one point it was practically my catch phrase. Thankfully I haven’t put anyone’s eye out. [clears his throat] …yet.
So yeah, NaNoWrimo and writing chapter two of my second novel kind of combined to take over my weekend. By the time I was supposed to settle down to draw the comic I had planned for this week I was sleepless, completely wasted on coffee, and practically cross-eyed from eyestrain.
Trust me, a screencap of the novel with some pretty text overlaid is far preferable to the drunken, noodly scribbling I would have subjected you to had I tried to draw in that state. (Edit: this morning I woke up and had a few spare minutes before work at my other job, so I upgraded this at least a tiny bit so it’s not just a screenshot with dialogue. Now, at least, it’s a “through Adri’s eyes” perspective.) Next week you’ll get more oddly-proportioned drawings, ubiquitous pink sunglasses, and poofy lips.
Although I can’t blame the weekend’s distractions wholly on NaNo. I’ve been trying to plan a 2008 relocation to Chicago for months now, for many reasons (not least among them being that Chicago does tend to be a bit more gay-friendly than Houston). Yesterday I sat down and after several hours of phone calls, research, and calculations, budgeted the whole thing - covering every expense down to a travel carrier for the cat and gas costs (as I’m probably going to rent a U-Haul trailer and just drive it, because I’m insane like that).
Let’s just say I’ll be working overtime for the next eight months, because apparently one catty fag and one faggy cat can blow more money on an 1100-mile cross-country trip than Paris Hilton at a Prada blowout sale.
So…yes. There you have the reasons for a quick and dirty comic. Hopefully it still amused you, at least a little.
…and no, the dragons in the story aren’t really gay - so Sihaya, stop plotting strange and disturbing Rez/Van fanfic. The Singe/Van idea was scary enough. [smirks]
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November 5th, 2007 at 2:14 am
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November 5th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Dragons? My inner (and, admittedly outer) fantasy geek is intrigued. What is your intent for this novel? Will it be published? Does it go online? None of the lot I know have ever actually *finished* a NaNoWriMo novel, so I don’t know what they do with them.
And there’s nothing wrong with cheap dirty tricks when there’s no time for a comic.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I am innocent xD Innocent I tell you! xD
November 5th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Del: My intent for this novel is to try to get it published. It’s actually something I started before NaNo; I’m just using NaNo to push myself to finish it faster by writing another 50,000 words on it this month before finishing the last 40,000+ (planned) words and polishing it up for submission. I’ve already finished one novel, but I just can’t seem to get an agent to bite. They all say the same thing: it’s good, you write well, the story’s interesting, but I don’t think it’s right for me/I don’t know if I can sell it. So I decided to try to write something that I hope will sell. Urban fantasy is big these days, so maybe I can use this second novel as a jumping point and then turn around and sell the first novel once I’ve already got a sale under my belt. Or maybe I’ll never get published. Blah.
Most people, by the way, don’t do jack with their NaNo novels.
And I do post chapters of the rough-draft chapters online, for a closed beta group of five or six people who have to have a password to access it. The final draft, after multiple rewrites, is only sent out to two people who give me feedback that I use to finish the submission-ready draft. I don’t post anything publicly save for teasers, as to many publishers that counts as first publication and distribution, lessening the value of it for them.
Sihaya: You know, I might almost believe that if I hadn’t known you for so long.
…and if you hadn’t already been having Singe/Van wibbles over on my personal blog.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Well, I wouldn’t have even imagined Rez/Van as a possible couple until you put the idea in my head. So it’s your own damned fault ^_^
November 5th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I tried to think of something clever about gay dragons being flaming, but we ran out of coffee.
November 5th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Dragons?! I wanna see! *leg-glomp*
November 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Kujo, that one made my evening xD
November 5th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Once, in an rp with my now ex-bf…we had a gay dragon and a gay human. Guess what we did with them o.o
yesssss….so dirty >.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
*for some reason it cut off my message* …*continues* but is it bad if it’s hot…?
November 5th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
[facepalms] I don’t even want to ponder the anatomical issues involved here.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
I try, Sihaya, I try.
November 6th, 2007 at 6:51 am
Shapechanging ftw xD
November 12th, 2007 at 1:10 am
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