Tonight was the culmination of a dream coming true, or at least one major step completed in seeing that dream coming true, when I penciled out the final page of Adamsville bk 1. It was nearly a year ago when I started this process and was finishing up my final script for the book that […]
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This weekend gave us some fun here in Jacksonville as Tropical Storm Beryl barrelled in to our coast and gave us a good deal of rain, power outages and wind. Where I live things were thankfully uneventful, but it was pretty crazy throughout town. At one point I did wake up in the middle of the
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Well I have basically accepted that for the next two to three months, life is going to be very busy and me very tired. Sure I could pace myself and just nibble away here and there, but DARN IT! I am THIS CLOSE! (making a motion with my hands). I spend my nights from about
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I was looking through my old rejection letters from the first time I pitched Adamsville, (then just called THE UNKNOWNS) and it was surprising how I felt after looking at those rejections. I wasn’t saddened by them or upset, or discouraged. I enjoy this book series for myself and have enjoyed making it for myself
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Last night I finished chapter 3 of the Adamsville. This chapter felt like it lingered and lingered. Mainly because I had to study for and pass two licensing exams for my job during that period. But the tests are behind me and so is the chapter. I feel like I really was able to refine
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Today I thought I would walk you through how I make a page of Adamsville. Don’t want to give away much of the context of this page, gotta keep my spoilers low, but here we go! First things first, I go through my script and do a pretty standard thumbnail of the page I will
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Since about the end of December I have been studying for a new a set of licenses that I need at my job and it has made work on Adamsville a bit spattered. Well this week I finally passed both of them, so now things are wide open. I have my schedule in place and
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I recently began thinking through my topics around planning and how to sustain myself as I enter into the final push to finish Adamsville bk 1. It yielded some interesting observations. I noticed that the primary way in which we think through the process of finishing something is to plan like this: I can probably produce
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I recently wrapped up reading two books that I thought I would give a quick review of that I think are a great resource for aspiring artists. The first is OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at what makes a successful person. It’s at once inspiring and at the same time discouraging.
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Well, I got done about a month faster than I saw myself actually getting done, but chapter 2 of Adamsville is now complete and as it stands I am 53 pages in and 41% totally done on the whole thing. Chapter 3 is 28 pages long and almost fully penciled. I plan to start the
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