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Today I had a plot bunny for a fic. Maybe not so much a *plot* bunny, more a general idea for a scenario, story structure, and illustrations... the plot being the thing missing at this point, but I think I might be able to derive a plot out of the scenario as such. And it'd be prose fic. I haven't written prose since the first grade, and the thought of having a go at it after all this time fills me with girlish giddiness. (But it'd be illustrated prose; can't completely ignore my roots and besides, the idea I have for the illustrations would fit really well with the setting) [/being totally vague]
***vid rec: Failed Experiments in Video Editing
info: Best. AMV. Ever. A humorous escapade into the world of fan made music videos, starring and created by Big-Big-Truck. Funny as hell, and not just for vidders.

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Incredibly funny vid - I lost it at the 'stick to doodling' comment because I went from sketching to vidding too, without about the same level of success :D

I haven't even tried vidding yet. The prospect of digging through several seasons' worth of clips to find the right ones is just too daunting. Plus I have no idea how to go about it, which programs to use. I think I'll stick to comics for the time being... easier to control.

That would be 'level of success' as the character in the vid ;) - I don't think my vidding efforts are quite up to my art standards, and the art always feels more natural, and like you say easier to control.

Don't get me wrong vidding is fun but also can be frustrating.

Awww...I find comics scarier than vidding. And that's despite having such a shoddy memory for visuals that I have to rewatch episodes every time I start a new vid, unless it's something really strikingly obvious. That being said, clipping for Connor!vid totally sucked.

If you ever do decide you want to vid, I will be very interested in seeing the results!

I remember that vid; I first saw it at an anime club. :-) Great stuff.

Meanwhile, once upon a time, you threw me a link to a human-AU veryvery meta Angel fic--I think by The Brat Queen. It starts with a dead-broke Wesley with a baby girl making his way to a town where Angel owns a diner. I lost the link in my HD crash; is there any chance you still have it ready to hand? I swear this time I will print the darn thing out, because I was 2/3 of the way through the fic and really enjoying it, and then...yeah.

Meanwhile, yay the plot bunny!

Yup, still got the link. It's Trust Me (http://s8219.net/bbfarchive/archive/2/trustme.html). Good fic, isn't it? I saved a print out myself.

By the way, I'm in the middle of pencilling page 10. It's a tricky page, mostly because I can only break at very specific points, and I have to fit everything between on the one page... but I think I got it working. The crowdedness should actually add to the feel of the scene, if I'm doing it right. fingers crossed.

Taking a break now but I think I'll have it finished tomorrow. Then all that's left to pencil will be the first half of page 11, and that one should be a piece of cake.

Then I'll take care of the bunny, see if I can get it to grow into a story. :)

Thank you so much!

Also, your X-Files work is gorgeous; it really evokes the chiaroscuro of that series. (Which I should resume watching. Maybe during the lizard's nap tomorrow...)

I look forward to seeing the pencils. Now if only my

winter_of_angel fic weren't completely kicking my @$$. I do have the fancomic partly done but I don't think I'm going to have time to do it all by Jan. 26, sigh, so I'll make life easier for myself and plan to post that on the other date I signed up for, which is in late March.

If you get back to x-files, above all I can recommend the episodes written by Darin Morgan (most notably "Humbug", "War of the Coprophages", and "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"). IIRC those early eps were still mostly MOTWs, so it's not that important to watch them in the right order. Morgan has his very own brand of humor, his episodes stand out.

So your

winter_of_angel fic is the comic? I'm very curious.

With my Smile Time comic I met the deadline for

ats_endofdays with the first page only... the last one was half a year late. My record *g*.

Eh, speaking of, didn't get as much pencilling done as I'd hoped today, but on the plus side our apartment is squeaky clean (I couldn't bear the mess any more). Tomorrow I want to finish the final panels, though.

Well, I signed up for two days for

winter_of_angel. I suspect I'm going to post the just-plain-words fic for the first day, which will give me another couple months to finish the fancomic for the second day (I signed up for Jan. 26 and also sometime late in March). We shall see.

And really, the fancomic is more of a fancomicvignette. It's not my usual medium; I didn't want to be overambitious. :-D

Having a lizard has pretty much killed any chance of our getting our place organized in the next 15 years. I don't even remember what cleanliness and organization look like...^_^

which will give me another couple months to finish the fancomic for the second day (I signed up for Jan. 26 and also sometime late in March). We shall see.

Yeah, comic is extremely time-consuming. To get a realistic estimate of the time needed I usually double the time I *think* it should take and add a few weeks.

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