After a fairly lengthy and wholly inspiring the-work-thus-far-deconstruction with fellow graphic-novelist Chris Baldwin, I've halted the fifth draft of Ellie in midstride, and will be re-evaluating the story from a number of different angles before taking it up again. Today I'm simply writing out the overarching plot, detailing the actions of the antagonists and developing the timeline of events and motivations of every character in the book, all 20 of them. I've so far been approaching the writing of this script with the hope that it will simply 'come together', and all will be well. However, that has been proving to very much not be the case. I knew that having a second set of eyes look over the work so far would help tremendously, I only wish I'd had this help sooner. So, I don't know what to say about this right now, except that after just a couple hours of writing things out in a notebook, and I'm already feeling that it's a stronger story with more fleshed-out characters.

I'm also planning to do some promo art for the series, and to have that on display at next month's Stumptown Comics Fest, whether I'm actually at the table or not. Of course, I'll post it here, too!

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