I posted this on my own page, but since I'm new to LJ and I only have one person who reads my journal right now, God bless her, I thought I would post it here, too
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I really love this idea. And yes, it would be a severe undertaking. My suggestion is, if you decide you want to write this, make yourself copious notes before you start writing. Yes, your notes will change with the story. You may go off in a completely different direction than what you thought. But notes help so much.
On really long stories, I usually have notes for days. I may rearrange them in order, I may write them out of order. I may ditch half of them. But I have them, and it gives me a frame to look at, and work with, and that always helps.
Your art is really pretty! And the story idea is, too. And has the possibility of being heartwrenching. Wow.
Thank you for the advice. I had a few notes typed up in Word, but even just writing this idea summary helped me clarify some things. I am going to keep writing notes on this and refining the story line. Who knows if this will see the light of day, but I hope it will. Honestly, I could do the fan art stuff in my sleep; putting together things in Photoshop comes naturally because of what I do for a living, but aside from writing newsletter articles for clients and narrative blog posts for my business, I've never been inclined to write until now. This is what Logan and Marie do to me! :)
I hope I didn't sound cocky just now by saying that I could do the fan art in my sleep; I just meant it to emphasize how much I feel like a fish out of water when it comes to writing! I often wonder about all the people who write such amazing fics, and if they've been writing their whole life.
In a word, for me, 'yes'. I've been telling stories in pictures since before I could write. Of course, it's taken a long time to get to something I'd consider 'good'.
On really long stories, I usually have notes for days. I may rearrange them in order, I may write them out of order. I may ditch half of them. But I have them, and it gives me a frame to look at, and work with, and that always helps.
Your art is really pretty! And the story idea is, too. And has the possibility of being heartwrenching. Wow.
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