Will Ariel

 Been growing and changing very quickly, so quickly that I can hardly keep up.  I had a pile of unfinished stories from past years. Some of them are very short, only a page or two. Some of them are thousands of words long. I've accumulated these stories since I was a teenager, the way that an artist will have pages and pages of unfinished drawings, doodles, sketches, and other visual ideas expressed onto paper. For a long time I have felt like I had to go back and finish certain pieces from this pile. And there are a few pieces I tried to go back and finish repeatedly. Two in particular come to mind: one is a post-apocalyptic story about a mermaid, and the other is a story about a girl who can transform into birds. These stories are both really good, I think. Or they would be, if I could finish them. But, you see, I can't. Because I'm not the person who began those stories any more.  One of the results of growing as fast as I have, and doing the healing work that I've b

One of the things I love to study is comic books. It's one of my favorite story-telling art forms, and the little details are endlessly fascinating to me. As I was doing some house cleaning today while Grace took a nap, I listened to/watched this awesome video about thought bubbles.  I love this discussion. I'm adding the knowledge here to my toolbox, for when I take one of my short stories and turn it into a comic book. Makes me want to draw a comic even more. :) But, first things first, and I've already committed to doing a few things this year, so I'm not committing to any specific comic book yet.