Current mood:

giddy

From a Licenced Physician
I was organizing some old Word and OpenOffice docs last night, mostly putting my personal bits in a new folder. I'm kind of amused at how many short stories I've started and how they all stop around the 500 word mark, when writer's block kicks in for me. The oldest file I have in the folder is from 2003 and is the first time I used a character I had created on the side for a school project. Every creative thing I've had to write since then has starred this guy.

Right now there's about 20 files in that folder, all starring Tim Harmon, a twenty-something that works in advertizing somewhat reluctantly since he is a singing prodigy that could have been amazing in the opera world. My crowning accomplishment is my first NaNoWriMo story from 2006 which starred Tim and ended at the 50,105 word mark. My hope is to someday turn it into a graphic novel.

The reason I started writing stories about Tim was because I could picture him and his life more easily than I could describe it, so I figured writing would help me come up with interesting stories for him. (Also despite the rather minimalist design I had a lot of trouble drawing him right and got frustrated too much.) Obviously that didn't work out too well with seven years worth of beginnings of stories and two failed NaNo novels. I've got no idea what this years novel will be about yet.

Anyway, a couple days ago I was lisitening to the original version of "明日がある" (Ashita ga aru- There's Always Tomorrow) by Kyu Sakamoto and thought it would be really fun to illustrate it with Tim (He's rather unlucky with love). I've already written a little story that's mostly done and I just started drawing it out in one of my sketch books. My first comic! I feel giddy about being crative for the first time in a while. Let's see how it goes!