I have a secret. I can't tell it. But I'm writing...

I have a secret.  I can't tell it.  But I'm writing it with someone else, and it's very good.

AND, I wish I could freaking draw.  

LOOK.  I *can* draw.  But I never have the time/space/lack of minions hanging on me to do it right.  And unlike writing, which I bash out at a pretty respectable rate—then go back and clean up later—I loathe erasing sketches.  And I need much more practice at drawing before I can feel comfortable with my first-drafts.  I'm just not there yet, so it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle.

If there were some way to TYPE comics (besides stripgenerator, which I still love, btw), I'd be all over it.  As it is, I sit and stare longingly at YouTube videos of people actually drawing their comics, scanning them into Photoshop, and coloring them.  I can do that stuff!  I know *how* to do all that stuff.  I should practice so I can do that stuff!

But I type 90 wpm and it's far more gratifying to finish my writing than it is to spend two years drawing a graphic novel.  Right now.

When/if all my kids are in school, then perhaps I'll have more time.

Or maybe I'll get crazy post-WDW vacay this year and come home and sketch up something nuts, and just experiment w/ digitizing it, just because.

Never say never.

But do say "not today," sometimes.  I do, anyway.  Not enough horas in the dia.

Here's where this awesome character image came from:

jupira by ~DjBisparulz