#theopenedway

Ooh.

red: is it hard for you to think up new ideas? list three of your biggest influences.

Ahaha, actually, I have the opposite problem. I'm a veritable fountain of sometimes good but mostly terrible ideas, but actually making myself work on them is a gigantic pain in the ass.

Um, influences...

- Ray Bradbury : He has a way of describing things and people that just kind of sings to me, and I try to incorporate a similar manner to my worldbuilding. I'm not very good at it yet, though.- Kurt Busiek : I mostly look to him for my fight scenes. While artists are given lots of leeway, there still has to be panel scripting, and, for example, his totally dialogue-less issue of Avengers proves he knows his staging and flow.- Marjorie Liu and Tamora Pierce : Character intimacy. They are very, very good in different ways at creating and maintaining 'voices' for their characters, and the way people move and speak to and around each other just sort of properly clicks, even for awkward scenes.

yellow: what do you do when you’re stuck in a block? list three sources of inspiration when new ideas are scarce. 

Oh, God, I am so terrible with this, because my creative drive is almost entirely tied to my mental and emotional state. So, really, this is less inspiration and more coping methods to try and get myself through the headache and heartache.