I was working for big corpo when I got my brain injury. A lot of things changed but what I didn’t think about was how it would affect my art. Fortunately my drawing ability didn’t suffer too much, but my ability to write was damaged to a degree that it took me about 15 minutes to write this sentence.
Writing used to come so easily for me, but I was determined to make the project I had been working on a reality, despite the brain trauma. So I wrote what I could, slowly. Very slowly.
Eventually I had enough written for a few pages. I have difficulty parsing information, and I can’t really tell if what I’m writing makes any sense unless I receive confirmation from an outside source. So I went online to get feedback. I got back one of the best comments I’ve ever read.
”I know a brain injury is a very frustrating thing--needing to relearn a skill you had before and being forced to do it in a new way is incredibly difficult and sometimes scary. But I think working on this sort of thing will help that process a lot. Even if your new writing has a slightly different voice or a different feel than your old writing, you can develop that voice and make it into something just as effective.”
There was more to the comment, but this section in particular was something I needed to hear at the time. It gave me the hope that I could continue, and possibly recover a little of what I lost. And even if I can’t, I can still use what I have to make the things, despite knowing they’re different than how things used to be.
With that said, here are the story boards for the opening of AETU
