#nerissa owens

[whichhannahsmith]

In a race towards the finish line I have abandoned my characters. I drive them on, blind to their own personality as they check off each plot point, lost to the succession of events.

When did they become hollow? Floating along down whatever current I place them in?

Let’s go back to the beginning. Let’s fill them with ideas, opinions and strengths. Let’s give them a mind of their own and take the blinders off. Let’s give them agency and autonomy.

Let’s let them drive the story forward. Let’s go back to the beginning, and see where they take us.

[whichhannahsmith]

I’ve been working on my story Merrow for years now. It has gone through so many changes and it’s still in the process of evolving even as I’m writing it once again from start to finish. 

The picture up above is a redraw of the original design for Nerissa and Quince. As you can see was was meant to be much more of a pirate themed story in the beginning. Since then it has changed, slowly moving forward in time until the current draft that I am working on which is set in the present day. 

It’s pictures like these that serve as motivation for me to see how far I have come with my writing and how much further I can go. 

[whichhannahsmith]

Name: Nerissa Owens

Age: 185

Equivalent human age: ~25???

Species: Merrow (drawing in human form)

Race: Half Japanese, half white

Gender: Female

Crew Position: Deck Hand

I had a lot of fun drawing this. Nerissa is the protagonist of my book Merrow. This is her crew picture for the Divine Madness. More to come soon!