I knew it wasn't going to be easy and it would require a bit of work, but people also say the same about novels and I've written a few of those. But it takes me half an hour to draw one page of comic, and I'm not even drawing the details or even trying to draw well. And that one page of comic moves the story along as much as one paragraph in a novel. Not to mention that I decided to read over what I had so far and nothing makes sense. None of the pages seem to flow together. It jumps around much more than I meant it to, I meant it to be a bit jumpy and inconsistent, but their conversation changes so quickly it's like they have ADD.
Not to mention the fact that it's so hot out that the only way I could be comfortable enough to get any work done was to strip down to my underwear. I'm so glad I have a room to myself to hang out half naked.
But at least I've managed to get three more pages down before it's time to sleep. I aimed for three pages and I've gotten three pages. And now I have a whole new respect for comic creators. Comic book writing isn't considered one of the more respected goals, but it takes more effort to write and draw (even if it's just a very rough sketch) one page of comic than it does to write one chapter of a novel, and the story that passes in one chapter of a novel is probably worth fifty pages of comic. The good news is that I won't run out of pages to draw, but the bad news is that I have so many more pages to draw.
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