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Do I write in comic form not simply to present my work more like a movie, but to limit my audience - much like I keep my hair long partly so I can hide my face?
I'm shy in ALL ways. I know many don't believe it. But it's true.
I'm shy in ALL ways. I know many don't believe it. But it's true.
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...and please ignore all the above wanky crap if you're just musing rather than *worried*!!
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'I KEEP MY HAIR LONG TO HIDE MY WRITING'
;)
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Gessi
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say it ain't so miss song!!!!
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Such is the nature of my inner demon.
Graphic novels DO have a limited audience, and making "novelized" versions of graphic novels doesn't, in my limited experience, seem to help their appeal to straight up book readers. (To be honest, the conversions I've read have not been well executed.)
However, some stories just work better as a "picture book". There is an elegance to the graphic novel that is hard to duplicate in any other media. When the story and the art come together in the right way, it can be one of the most emotionally satisfying forms of entertainment, because you have a sense of watching the action, of being there, that isn't as transient as the experience of watching a movie. Okay, to me. But still.
And it's not unlike the argument "live action" v. "animation". I don't know if you've seen Perfect Blue (if you haven't and you'd like to, be warned: there is a 'staged' rape scene in the film, a television scene one of the characters is acting in), but it's an animated film that could very easily have been made live action. That wasn't how they wanted to tell the story. They wanted to prove a "plain old" story could be well executed in the animation medium.
It limits the audience of the film, not so much in it's native Japan, but definitely here. Cartoons are for kids. Is it any wonder Mrs. Cadillac SUV is shocked by the Japanese cartoon she rented for her kids. She didn't read the box and her preconcieved notion about what animation IS, at it's core, is reinforced on all sides by Disney and the like.
People who might want to tell a "normal" story through animation in this country (Bakshi's American Pop comes to mind) are going to find their audience limited. Those limitations exist only in the mind of the audience in question. So the next question is, Do you want to "play" to those people anyway?
Who do you want to play to? You seem to have deep roots in the comic and indy comic arena, and a lot of the people I see commenting on your posts and whatnot are also deeply rooted there. For a graphic novel, this is a very good thing. I read 'em, and you got
Your prose is fabulous, so far as I'm concerned, and I'm sure if you wanted to head more in a novel direction, you wouldn't have any trouble there either. You've got book-writerly connections as well, and those are never a bad thing. So who do you want to play to?
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I have this problem in my own journal. I like some of the things she does in her main daily entry but am afraid it would look weak and strange to copying her.
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*thwaps you*
Go where the story takes you, silly woman.... don't worry about that stuff. *hug*
Playing to.... I don't know! Different parts of Shayara come out in different ways, is the trouble.
::sigh::
And I relate to the coming out in different ways. When I first actually concieved of the story as The Story I was deep in the throes of ElfQuest and at the time I thought the story would be better developed as a graphic novel. Reason set in later and I attempted my first novelization. The Story remains doggedly visual. Stupid Story.
What I dream, what I really Fantasize is the damn thing animated, because that is what it has always wanted. And I have not clue fucking one how even to begin that. Maybe I should just write it as a series of stage directions and dialogue. That's how it comes out, and what I'm trying to capture when I write, and why it takes me forever to write anything at all.
I've known for years who I would cast to do the voices of certain characters in a fantasy world where I could get anyone I want. I hear them, I see it happen, and... and people have told me they'd like to see what I see in my dreams, and I see The Story in my dreams, and I want other people to be able to see that. AI!!
For what it's worth, my two cents would be this: Action heavy stuff, and stuff that could become action heavy, lends itself well to the graphic novel. And by action I mean action, not necessarily fights, explosions, and that kind of crap. Intense interpersonal stuff lends itself well to novel. Finding the path between, that's the trick.
And while I'm the last person really qualified actually to offer this advice, I will anyway: Play to yourself first and foremost.
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Even most of your outgoingness is simply a mask to hide behind. I see more of you from here than I did while I was inside your house. (Because, of course, I'm less of a danger from a *distance*.)
But most people aren't sharp enough to realize that, so of course they don't believe it. They simply see your sparkle and don't realize that, like a magician, you use it as sleight of hand to distract them from the substance behind.
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But you must do as you see fit! :)
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*blinks owlishly*
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