5,685 words and counting! In the midst of the production of which I made some creative control decisions and went through some sleepless nights and decided to make the novel a graphic novellette. It seemed more realistic after I took a look at the novel's content in terms of quantity (averaging a shade over 189 words a day) and in terms of quality (five disparate plots, innumerable changes in tone and genre, and a change in narrator from first-person to third-person, back to first, then back to third-person again, basically a literary triple play and we're still not out of the first chapter) and I've decided that my text could use some bolstering from visual aids. And I hate describing things to people. And I hate reading other people's descriptions of things. Hence the graphic - and I don't like over-long books - hence the novellette.
Of course that means I'll have to practice comic forms. This week's sklog is my first attempt at incorporating text boxes, word balloons, and thought bubbles into the visual arts medium. Text boxes are fantastic because they're cheating on the purity of the visual narration, just as the visual narration is cheating on the purity of the verbal narration, and everyone's cheating on each other and nobody minds because it's a party and let's invite the word balloons and the thought bubbles too because they're both totally groovy and they understand and everyone can just crash on the couch or the floor. Happy Holidays!
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