I got about 60 pages done, up to page 250 (well, 247, close enough), with one entirely new chapter that replaces the old one that just wouldn’t work. The transition scene’s still rough going into the next bit, but I can smooth it out. The next scene I have to rewrite is okay as it is, but should be really painful and explosive when I’m done rewriting it, which should make the follow-up scene which needs comparatively little work all the more powerful. I hope. I need to work at…
nrrgh.
I have got the particularly huge sleepies today. Possibly because I stayed up til 1am for some silly reason. But it is not good for revisions to have such huge sleepies. I may cut myself some slack and do only fifty pages today, and take a nap. Or something. I don’t know. I really should do a hundred. Well, all right. I started on page 191 this morning. I will get to at least page 250 today. I may nap as well, and I think I must go to the…
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And the winner is… Now, this guy emailed me after I’d already narrowed my field down to seven or eight artists and was talking to them about the possibility of doing page roughs at a cut rate. I got his sample pages he sent and there was a lot of, “Jesus wept,” going on in my head, because I loved his style beyond words, but I was afraid I was already stretching myself awfully thin with audition costs. But I liked what I saw so much I had to write…
seven of eight…
This is where it really started to kill me. Female artist, extremely stylistic and punchy, very much standing out of the crowd. This is the stuff that made me start wailing about my doom on my blog. *grin*
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Down to my finalists, now. Bruno sent me character sketches and page roughs on the level I was expecting–loose and general–and I was really happy with what I saw, especially with the character sketches with the dynamic body shapes and movement. Very nice.