Kir-Sia

So I’m as pleased as punch because we’re actually getting into the very first thing that justified my existence around here. Riess needed help with dialogue and I said “You know I’m about the last person you want to ask for help with that,” and he said “No, I know what I want them to say, I just don’t know how they should say it.” And I think my eyes might have glowed. I suck at the big picture. I might have cool ideas but I never know what the goal of a story I’m writing is. So it kind of founders and then I lose interest and forget it. Details are my strength. Given the chance I will bore you to tears with details.

Riess has a big picture here, and I’m helping out with the small picture, getting the characters from one place to another and helping decide what those places are. I helped write this scene, and Riess was pleased enough to take me on as a coauthor. Since then we’ve come up with a lot of other ideas which are awesome but I’m somewhat pained to realize probably aren’t going to be drawn until 2009. I think there was talk of apprenticing me to help with the illustration in some respect simply to speed things up but I think that might simply be terribly ambitious on my part.

Anyway, back to the art, I mean, Science.

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