"Ithaqa" Comic Book Update #202 Character Paradoxes

Starting this post early in the day, so I can be sure that it gets done! As I retread, (and mostly throw out), what I originally wrote in Issue 5 about a year ago, I find myself thinking about an interview with George R Martin. I remember him talking about books 4/5, and the "Gordian Knot" that they generated.

He felt that too many of his point of view characters were getting bunched up in the same locations, when in fact they needed to be elsewhere observing other events. It sounded like this "knot" had slowed down an already infamously slow writer.

In some ways I find myself in a similar position, where I've got an ensemble cast, and I want them to get somewhere ASAP so I can call this book finished... but my characters have got minds of their own, and you can't force them to do things they wouldn't do, not if you want to tell a good story anyway.

I find myself wishing I could push all my characters to the same location, create a "Gordian Knot" just so we can have our Avengers Moment... but that's like eating the cake before you've eaten dinner! Whats more, I remember back when I was writing Issue 1 and I DID have all my characters in the same place, I hated it!

It was so hard to give each character the amount of time they deserved, to make sure their personalities were distinct from one another... I was relieved as hell when they split up and went separate ways! So the more I reflect, the more I think it's a "grass is always greener on the other side" kinda thing.

Writing is hard, and maybe we have a tendency to think of the writing we've already finished, as being easier than the writing we're doing now. The truth is, it was hard then, it's hard now, and it will still be hard when I'm writing Issue 8!

But it's hard in the way that exercise is hard. Bringing yourself to do it takes SO MUCH willpower, and it's misery on the front end, but once you get going - it's your favorite thing in the whole world.

Issue 5 is going surprisingly smoothly thus far, therefore we can expect an existential crisis on my end sometime in the next week or two, so stay tuned!

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