4th January 2000:
YES! The damn thing is done!
64 pages in total (though the truth is, I botched up about the same
number of pages during the creation of the story, so in reality I had
drawn over 100 pages - some of which you're never going to see, ofcourse!),
which isn't long, but it seem like an eternity to me, seeing that I
started it about a year and a half ago. Luckily the holidays mean I
can get it done quicker than I could while I was studying, and so here
is the end result - 20 pages in 17 days. Okay okay, it should be 21
days, but my End of Millenium resolution was to get it done before 2000,
which I DID! Really! I was just 4 days late in putting it up! You have
to believe me! |
14th December
1999: I finally stepped
on it and managed to put up 8 pages in the space of 6 days! Never mind
that I still haven't managed to get out of bed before 11 o'clock every
morning... maybe I will manage to meet the impossible goal I set for
myself 6 days ago (in trying to get the rest of the manga up before
New Years (new millenium)! Strangely enough, I've done the second half
of the manga but I actually haven't done the middle part yet...I've
got most of it, in other words. Never mind, the idea of getting it finished
before 2000 is enough to motivate me to WORK. ^_^ |
8th December
1999: I've been lazing
around a bit lately...with the computer stuff anyway. Amazingly, I've
only managed to put on 4 pages so far...4 pages in 8 days isn't bad
though. I AM working on this and I DO want to get this finished, so
I do believe I better start gearing myself up. I hope to get this whole
thing up by New Years (new millenium!) but that just sounds like wishful
thinking...my greatest goal lately is to get out of bed before 11, and
that is difficult enough. ^_^ |
1st December
1999: Exam's finally
finished! Yay! That means it's holiday time. It also means I had to
rush out 5 more pages - but good news, the plot is thickening and I
now have more time to draw pretty pics! Well, actually, I should be
striving to finish this manga, shouldn't I? I'm trying my best, my estimates
is that we're nearly halfway through it. This is turning out to be longer
than I originally thought, but that's not surprising because I have
changed my mind about the way the story should developed a zillion times
ever since I started it...I hope my next story won't have the same problem.
^_^ |
24th October
1999: Well, I've
managed to add 6 new pages to the story (amaaaazing), because exams
are looming on the horizon. I still haven't got the explanation of the
sound effects going (and I don't think I ever will), but I at least
added links to each page at the title page of the manga so people don't
have to go through the WHOLE thing to get to the page they want. I'm
thinking of changing it into something easier to deal with later on...but
wait till the holidays. As to anything else coming up in the NEAR future...?
I dunno, guess I've have to see how committed I am to my exams studies!
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8th October,
1999: Nothing much,
at the moment, when I've got all this work piling up. I've got the Introduction
page and the manga pages up, but that's about it. I intend to put up
explanations for the Japanese sound affects on some of the pages (though
I probably screwed them up anyway). Just in case you're wondering, I
decided to draw the sound effects in Japanese because of the onomatopaeic
nature of the Japanese language, which makes sound effects fit in better
and look less stupid than in English. I don't know when I'll get around
to doing that but eventually I will, er, yeah, eventually. |