Daily prompt?
Lately I've been scheduling posts very late, like at 9 or 10pm (Italy time) which means full daylight for you guys on the other side of the ocean: the WordPress servers were jammed, and I usually had to finish my drafts in the morning, before the alarm clock set off. So I don't have posts in draft form anywhere, except when WordPress lets me down (but I love you anyway, guys! 
). That's why I'm writing this in the afternoon, so I won't have to get up early tomorrow morning to finish scheduling this rambling post.
That's also why I'm sort of improvising, jumping from one topic to the other. My brain is a little fried for the overworking of the past week. I still haven't figured out a few things on GoodReads (why can't they see my Lulu shop? Only because I don't have ISBNs on the graphic novels? Tarun hasn't an ISBN either, but it's there…), and are still waiting for the final print cover (similar to the e-book one, but more square to fit the paperback) and printed copy.
I'm very excited, but also very exhausted – mentally, as I didn't move around much. I tried to go for a walk every morning anyway, it's good for my back, and Monday morning I really didn't want to go back to DayJob. It felt like a waste of time after trying The Writing Life for only a week! 
So, trying to follow the daily prompts from last week:
Good question. I think he/they are always with me. Then I have to sit down and write their stories, of course. I don't really have a ritual for that. When I was younger, I just started writing, and that was it – one-draft stories, some pretty awful, others not so bad. Then around the new millennium I started to ponder a little more before putting anything to paper. Even the graphic novels have a sort of script (BTW I found myself editing the last chapter of SKYBAND while I was drawing chapter 6 last weekend, because I had come up with a scene that was much better than what I had originally planned), although they're sort of one-draft stories.
So, how do I find them. Well, I have my virtual cast (hence I don't describe too much, and don't forget the eye/hair color of a character, once I have decided who s/he is), and they usually act in my head… Sometimes my vision becomes fuzzy, so I just close my eyes and tell the story to myself (usually before falling asleep – that's what I did with that SKYBAND scene), and then write it down. Am I making any sense here?
If I don't, it's because WE switched to Daylight Saving Time (or whatever it's called) THIS weekend… so I missed one hour of sleep on Sunday and apparently I haven't recovered yet! Sorry about that!
