In this adventure, the twins are stretching “rubberband time.” I love how an abstract idea becomes tangible in their mathematical world. Compensates the fact that the action poses seem a bit off due to the length of their limbs. Nonetheless, I’m pleased with how it turned out along with the fact that it took me only 10 days to complete it.
After finishing the twelfth painting, I finally came to the conclusion that instead of having 24 paintings, 16 would do. At least until I finish transforming the story. I’m devouring craft books to improve my writing as quickly as possible. So far, I’ve deleted around twenty thousand words and I’ve barely added anything. I spend my time deleting what doesn’t belong and working out the kinks.
I’ve never bought into the idea of “writer’s block” and the latest craft book suggests that the main two sources of block is either stubbornness/fear or not writing in the correct POV/verb tense. As far as my stubbornness is concerned, I’m willing to edit the story any way it needs to be edit with the glaring exception of the story boards.
Once I complete a painting, it’s in the story. I feel my obligation is to write around the paintings to make the story match since I’m not going to cut a painting, the order of the paintings or dramatically change the text from the essence of the painting. Besides, for someone who doesn’t set out to plot out much, I use these paintings as the backbone of the story. As such, I hope they’re strong enough to guide and ground me.