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So, my internet's being a pain in the backside, it's cutting out ll over the place. Barely staying online for 5 mintues before a 15 minute black-out. Bastard. So, I went back to drawing (Yes, drawing, not writing, I'm getting to that). I'm scribbling around at an actual comic series called Paladin. It's your bog-standard sci-fi adventure, starships and what-not. Now, the past couple of weeks I've actually been mulling over the science behind it and making sci-fi obey as many real laws of physics as possible. That's been great fun. I don't even say that sarcastically, working out scientific problems is like doing a suduko or crossword for me, a great mental challenge.
Grr, I swear that's the hundredth time I've added the word 'suduko' to chrome's dictionary.
Anyways, I've been drawing one of the characters, called Kimberly (Kim) Carrigan. Naturally, she's got boobs. Now, don't think I'm being perverted here, bare with me. Faces I can draw, even hands to a degree, but overall body, sizes, anatomy, that kind of stuff. Gah, it's hard. So, as a result, she either ended up with lop-sided cubes or bizarre carrot-shaped (don't ask) boobs. Not good. I didn't want to focus on them to much, 'cos I'm not designing her as a sexual character, it's just a natural part of the female anatomy, so I went to google about drawing boobs. Dear god, whatever you do, make sure safe-search is on when you do that. I've seen a side of Lois Griffin and Marge Simpson that, well, actually......
*Ahem* Moving swiftly on.
I stumbled across a blog moaning about the confused.com adverts. Rightly so. They are horrendous. Easily distracted, I was curiosu to see what this blogger said, and by the end of it, just kept reading the next post. And the next. One of her posts was about writer's block, and while I don't write much, I do love to. I found an interesting link to a website called 750 Words.
Right, backstory sorted. Now, 750 Words is a website that's free to use and basically challenges you to write 750 words a day. It's completely private, just a scrap-pad for you to mash your keyboard at about any random idea. I've signed up, and my plan is to non-stop write 750 words a day from now on. Even if just to help filter through my own thoughts and make sense of them, or to give me some inspiration, either way. Starting with the first thing that comes into your head, just start writing. Write thoughts down. Just transcribe your train of thought, and don't filter any of it.
For any of you who're writers, interested in writing, or creating storylines for comics, anything that requires a creative input really, it sounds like a great idea. Give it a go.
