“I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it’s just too late for me. And that this book isn’t working, nothing’s working, everything feels like it’s made of spiders.” WritingDespairDepressionSpiders Book:Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life Source: Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life
“I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the plotting stage, anything can happen. That's why I try to finish that part before I start writing. I may be exaggerating here - I'm sure there are times when I think of something part-way through that changes the story, but the ultimate outcome doesn't change. Or not yet. It could always happen.” ThinkingWritingTryingUltimateAnything Can HappenExaggerating Author:Jessica Abel
“Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize a story are very different, and include not only drawing and writing dialogue and narration, but graphic design and the ability to depict time passing visually. It's a whole suite of skills that has to go into making a comics page, skills that are quite distinct from those that go into writing a page of prose, or making a film.” WritingDifferentFilmRealizingAbilityDesignDialogueProseGraphicTime PassingTime Passes Author:Jessica Abel
