#soultwined

[icaruskey]

I need to lock TF in on this outline but I've not written in a week so my skill(z) are rusty.

I've also started a vomit draft for a prototype chapter. It'll not be as long as a regular chapter, but I think it'd be a good idea to have a proof of concept/pilot chapter showing at least the digital art idea if I can't get access to a way to print it traditionally.

I still gotta play with how to do that too.

[icaruskey]

I've been playing more with color palettes today and I might finally be hitting something pretty solid here?

I used D as a way to experiment. Also playing with absolutely minimal white within the panels cause, well, D will be breaking them. A lot.

[icaruskey]

I think I like the Noise function

But also this is the 5 layer palette. I'm not sure if I'll keep that amount of work yet

[icaruskey]

finished the mini-paragraph outline so now I'm going to be expanding things chapter by chapter and figuring out where to put in the alt universe history bits.

I'm very eepy though so I just cleaned up the formatting a bit of my master doc before I take a mid afternoon nap

[icaruskey]

I am also thinking about changing my plans for the color palettes for Soultwined.

It's currently 4 colors + 1 pop of color but honestly considering I'm planning on running it through a couple traditional printmaking methods before adding the text and a few other things in digitally, it would only serve future Icarus well if I nixed a color out altogether.

Especially given I'm already gonna have my hands full with the rainbow river/plasm shit ugh

So reducing the color palette by one is a good idea. I maybe should practice in RGB instead of CMYK since I know the colors are more saturated through photo lithography than you would ever believe

I'm not gonna think about how long that's gonna take to do by hand

I wonder if I should directly use the other methods onto the photo litho or convert it all like I've done before.

hm

stuff to test out I guess.

[icaruskey]

I'm like. Officially dating.

I also finished the outline for Act 2 so tomorrow is Act 3 and then onto the expansion of this outline into something more chapter by chapter.

I got an email asking for me to be a beta reader again and I'm waiting til I have a detailed outline so I can ask for feedback on that in exchange.

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Apparently I got through a decent chunk of Act 2 as well yesterday. It's a bit blurry since I hadn't slept and was so anxious about Ned getting fixed. She's currently not eating or drinking much. I had to semi force her to take her pain meds. Which, btw, fragment into nothing so like wtf

But I'm pretty impressed with getting through as far as I have and it being... readable. I plan on finishing out this run and then it's a chapter by chapter breakdown. Basically filling it out more and more until it's everything but the words.

[icaruskey]

It is 4:30 AM.

I did not take my sleep meds because I was scared of missing my alarm to get Nettle fixed so I've been tossing and turning all night. I crack open the laptop to poke at my graphic novel's outline and for some reason my brain clicked.

12 chapters is the ultimate baddie. 4*3, when these are the two numbers that I'm reflecting on over and over and over again in the setup of the story.

4 is pronounced the same as death in Korean, and my MC is Korean/German American who has more cultural influence from his mother's Korean background.

3 is associated with Hecate and we know I'm a fucking Greek mythology gremlin. While I shan't be demonizing D's Korean background (I would argue that learning from his mother to respect the dead actually is what gives him his power to begin with), I do like the idea of using a number not divisible by 2 to show a "break" in the cycle that Raya started with her destruction and rebirth of her universe. So each act is loosely associated with the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone as well.

Just augh. I love building meta narratives that people might never understand but sit there just waiting to be uncovered. And it gives me a very solid and reasonable goal of 48 chapters. That's 24 chapters for Act One since it's the setup and the bait and switch, then 12 a piece for the following acts.

How many pages per chapter? I don't know. Will I choose to take a leaf from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and have mirrored/repeating panel structure? Probably! We will see. Will there be mini chapters to cover bits and pieces that might not fit neatly into the larger narrative? Most likely!