Frazzled and Tangled

[shadesong]

My ankle still hurts, but is not numb ... wearing an ankle brace today. I'm all frazzly and ticked off due to not being able to take my walk last night.

I feel good about the issue #1 script and issue #2 extended summary, but I'm tangled on issue #3, whether I should focus on Kat (who I introduce at the very end of issue #2) or introduce Tessa and her crew. Part of me wants to keep Kat in the background for now and let people get really curious about her as I give her small but potent appearances, but yendi thinks I'll be confusing people enough with all the characters I'm intro-ing in issues #1 and #2 and that I should stick with known characters in ssue #3 rather than intro-ing still more.

The main thing that irritates me these days is not getting a word in edgewise. I think about things. I mull them over in my head. And as soon as I open my mouth to ask a question or say something that's important to me, whoever's around, no matter how long they've been silent before this, feels the need to start chatting about nothing in particular. Literally. Not about-to-open-my-mouth. Like, mouth open, first syllable out, then they start talking.

This is why I prefer e-mail.

Also irritable because I'm caught up in a D/s cycle again, and I don't know how to deal with that, and I don't know if I'll ever figure it out. And because I want to go to West Side Story tonight and I don't think yendi wants to.

I don't know.

And there are still seven goddamn baby gerbils.

Comments

[deza.livejournal.com]

And in about three weeks, those baby gerbils will start making more baby gerbils...

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

on issue #3 -- maybe focus half on Kat, half on Tessa and the kids? or perhaps don't go into quite so much focus on Kat at the end of issue #2, and use issue #3 to bring in Tessa and co. or something...

on the word in edgewise issue -- believe me, i so know what you're talking about. i get that here from all three of them, and it drives me up the fucking wall. that's why it took me so long to tell them i was leaving -- they kept interrupting when i was trying to say something, and it pissed me off. still pisses me off. i just give up when it happens now and leave the room.

::hugs:: it'll all sort itself out. even the seven baby gerbils. =)

Cool

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Good news about your comic scripts.

As a reader and writer, I think that yendi may be on the right track about new characters. It can take a little while, in comics especially, to get comfortable with characters. If it were me, based on what little I know about it so far, I might focus on this Kat character and avoid new *significant* characters while the characters from the first two gel. OTOH, if you want to keep things mysterious, a bit of chaos doesn't hurt so long as you don't draw it out too long.

Why is West Side Story a D/s issue?

Re: Cool

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oh, West Side's not a D/s issue - was just lumping two random things together.

[two-star.livejournal.com]

I'd say, make it as confusing as you want, and then provide reams of footnotes to explain things, but then, I like Finder.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

So do I. :)

We're going to have a glossary and mini character guide in each issue, and extended versions of both on the website. I know I have a *lot* of background stuff here, and I'm going to try to make it as easy for the reader as I can.

Interrupting

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

I know I've been a major culprit lately in this department, so I wanted to take responsibility for my part. I've been motoring on for a mile a minute, and that must be sooooo annoying.

Sorry....I've been aware of it for a few days now, but my mouth keeps outpacing my brain. Grrrr....I'll redouble my efforts. You're too interesting to continually interrupt anyway.

The Point: I'm sorry, and I'll try to do better.

Re: Interrupting

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*hugs* If it was all you, I'd have said so! It's just an overriding theme.

Re: Interrupting

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

I figured it wasn't all me, but I know I've been doing it. Just wanted to beg forgiveness for my part. :)