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Close friends and closer followers of my dA have watched me pick at Next Town Over for like 3 years.

As of this morning, it is my pleasure to announce that I am continuing to pick at Next Town Over.

No, really: the series (it’s 13 books) is almost entirely written (albeit rough around the edges in places), and I’m forcing myself to just decide, now, how things in the comic are going to look so I can start drawing this thing and get a proposal done.

For those of you not sick to death of the NTO stuff via dA, its primary characters in reasonably final iterations (and various stages of undress):

Protagonists? Antagonists? One of each? It’s a secret to everybody.

You may have seen my Sentry Duty “cover” percolate through the dA sidebar awhile ago, unsung.  It’s an open, collaborative comics anthology with a bunch of different stories concerning the same basic premise from a few writers and artists.  I’m doing some arting, but saving up my words for NTO.  And LittleBigPlanet levels.

Exciting.

“For some reason, my work isn’t real unless I show it to you.  Everything we’re working on won’t be seen for months; it’s excruciating.  I’m writing constantly, and I have nothing to show for it.”

Jerry Holkins wrapped up the newspost that accompanied today’s [jaw-dropping] Automata comic like this. Man, did it resonate with me.

It’s hard to stay focused & motivated when you have no interaction with an audience of any kind.  When I was updating Hell’s Corners I moaned profusely about the smallness of its readership but at least I had a sounding board.  Ass-deep in the gears and grease and tin widgets of writing Next Town Over I feel uniquely alone; like I’m working on nothing.  It’s not solid or animate until someone else sees it, and I can’t show it to you until it’s ready.

Ponderous.

Incidentally, at the insistence of a couple people I’m now on Twitter so I can not update you even more readily.

…makes its now hilariously belated debut over at IndyPlanet.  Big hi-five ‘twixt its writer Nich and I.

 To my infinite dismay there is a typo in it.  I’m not going to say where because that’d be a spoiler.

You ready? I don’t think you are.

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Oh hey. Sef’s moved in.

^5.

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