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[telophase]

After throwing out the old script, starting from scratch, rearranging scenes, and rewriting, I think I've finally got a script that will fit into 20 pages. Yay. Start Wednesday with the page roughs. mundeemo, you can tell bitpig that I might actually have an entry for the current Tokyopop competition. :)

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Tokyo Pop Competion

[mundeemo.livejournal.com]

I will ask him to read your livejournal instead. And congrats on the script - I'm sure it will rokku!

Re: Tokyo Pop Competion

[telophase.livejournal.com]

thanks! Now I have to actually *draw* the thing, and I've set myself a challenge because it really kinda wants to be done in a style vaguely reminiscent of Blade of the Immortal. Yeesh.

I'm fairly sure it'll make a shortlist at the competition, because it has an actual beginning, middle, and end, it's got characterization, plot, and action, and I am artistically competent. Whether or not its what the judges are looking for is something else again. :) It reads fairly obviously like the first chapter in a longer story, but since most of the winners in the second competition read fairly obviously like the first chapter in longer stories, I'm not concerned.

I did note a trend: they judges are tending to pick entries to represent different genres. This makes me feel better in a way, because I don't have to be one of the ten best, I merely have to be the best of all the fantasy/pseudohistorical entries. (Don't correct my logic. It's how I boost my confidence.)

Of course, I don't necessarily agree with the judges -- the one they gave the grand prize to this time, I find cloying and distasteful. But I'm not a fan of super-cute, and I also don't find stories about children mistreating animals and not learning from it to be either funny or charming. (if you haven't read it, it's a sort-of instructional manga about how to care for a ferret in which a kid who owns one basically screws up a lot of stuff. In the story proper, she never learns, although the reader learns why not to do such-and-such, but it just leaves me wanting to call the ASPCA on the kid.)

And now I realize that I am writing this really long reply because I am procrastinating on my page roughs. Arg.