2025 Writing Log, Part Twenty
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rynling- I wrote the sixth chapter of What Dreams May Come, a Bloodborne-themed Legend of Zelda AU. I also got started on the seventh chapter, which currently exists in a very rough draft.
- Every day I sit down to work on a longer story, and usually I take these projects a paragraph at a time – or a sentence at a time, when I’m super tired. The idea is to keep the story fresh so that it’s ready to go when inspiration strikes. And with this part of What Dreams May Come, I finally got to enjoy that boost of creative energy. Always a pleasure.
- My review of Kazimir Lee’s debut graphic novel, Low Orbit, was published on Comics Beat (here). This is a 100% positive review, but my actual feelings about this book are ambivalent. It’s nothing specific; I’m just not into YA graphic novels. Still, this one is better than most, and I think it would have made a huge impact on me if I were ten years younger. I’m glad it exists, and I’m honored to have been given an opportunity to write a review. I want the artist to be showered in praise so they can keep drawing comics.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about She and Her Cat, the prose adaptation of the super-indie short animation (this one here) that famously became Makoto Shinkai’s debut. I know that “a prose adaptation of a five-minute student anime about cats” sounds like the death of fiction, but I really liked this book. The high quality of the translation makes a big difference, and the illustrations are lovely.
- I posted a full-page illustration of one of my favorite places in Breath of the Wild on Tumblr (here). It was a pain in the ass to get the details of Link’s clothing right, and I’m still not sure it’s 100% accurate, but I’m proud of this piece.
I spent the past two weeks living my American car commercial dream of driving through mountain forests in a high-end Mercedes. Unfortunately I was not romanced by any draculas; but otherwise, everything was perfect.
- Every day I sit down to work on a longer story, and usually I take these projects a paragraph at a time – or a sentence at a time, when I’m super tired. The idea is to keep the story fresh so that it’s ready to go when inspiration strikes. And with this part of What Dreams May Come, I finally got to enjoy that boost of creative energy. Always a pleasure.
- My review of Kazimir Lee’s debut graphic novel, Low Orbit, was published on Comics Beat (here). This is a 100% positive review, but my actual feelings about this book are ambivalent. It’s nothing specific; I’m just not into YA graphic novels. Still, this one is better than most, and I think it would have made a huge impact on me if I were ten years younger. I’m glad it exists, and I’m honored to have been given an opportunity to write a review. I want the artist to be showered in praise so they can keep drawing comics.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about She and Her Cat, the prose adaptation of the super-indie short animation (this one here) that famously became Makoto Shinkai’s debut. I know that “a prose adaptation of a five-minute student anime about cats” sounds like the death of fiction, but I really liked this book. The high quality of the translation makes a big difference, and the illustrations are lovely.
- I posted a full-page illustration of one of my favorite places in Breath of the Wild on Tumblr (here). It was a pain in the ass to get the details of Link’s clothing right, and I’m still not sure it’s 100% accurate, but I’m proud of this piece.
I spent the past two weeks living my American car commercial dream of driving through mountain forests in a high-end Mercedes. Unfortunately I was not romanced by any draculas; but otherwise, everything was perfect.
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Date: 2025-05-29 09:17 pm (UTC)....I couldn't even tell which segments those were, months later, in editing.
Which is my way of saying, yep, one sentence at a time gets it done.