This week was a but different than the last two weeks because I did not do any drawing. I went back to focusing on the written aspect of my project. I'm almost done with my written narrative, in fact, it will be completed this tuesday. I have decided that instead of a comic I'm just going to Illustrate my text. I have seen it done really successfully in a recent issue of batman. In this batman comic there were not panels with pictures and speech bubbles, but blocks of text with images that went along with it. This style worked pretty good with the batman comic, the only difference is that the batman images were rendered in 3D, while mine will only be 2D. I will post a picture for you to see what im taking about. I'm a little concerned tho that since my story is a bit long, that nobody will want to read it and give me feedback :(. I will need to know what parts are working and what parts are not, what i should probably add or take out, just critique on story elements and writing style. I do intend to take it to the sweetland writing center but I would also like to get feedback from my faculty and classmates. I outlined my story into an outline of its important parts, I was advised by Hanna to do so, so that I would keep myself on track while I was writing and not forget what where the important parts. So I would not spent to much time working on parts of the story that were not as important, while the main pieces were not complete. This outline splits the story up into sections. I guess if I want anyone to even think about reading the story I will just give them the outline, then give them the story one piece at a time, because i know everyone had their own stuff to to, and not much time to sit around reading my long ass narrative.

What I need to do: Finish the writing by tuesday, and have the rest of the character designs/descriptions done by the following tuesday. Then its DRAW DRAW DRAW!!!!!!

I'll post a copy of my outline for anyone who would like to read.

Sanguine moon

Main Points Outline

1. The story starts off in the middle. George Is Allen’s Assistant and close personal friend. Since Allen has become a monster, he has begun to kill off members of a gang in order to take revenge for the death of his friend Pikarra, and as a half ass means of justifying his choice to become a monster to satisfy his own selfish needs. Members of this gang abduct George on his way home from work because the gang has noticed that the police for some odd reason have taken a sudden interest in George (Allen and his company to be exact) and believe that George must be in the know about something. George of course knows nothing about what is going on. After taking George and questioning him Allen suddenly Appears and kills allot of the gang members. George recognizes his boss and close friend and the two of them are both quite surprised to see each other. Allen then begins to tell George why he is there and how he came to be what he is, and this is where the story starts, at its true beginning.

2. The story starts with Allen and his best friend Christopher sitting in class. Christopher and Allen have been friends since they were small children. Allen is a very morose and cynical person, his character is set up as having a very depressing outlook on life and very negative views and opinions when it comes to women. He refuses to own up to his role in things, blaming his situations in life on outside causes. Allen is then attacked by a stranger who turns out to be some sort of monster, and after the stranger gets to know Allen’s personality better through the tasting of his blood he finds Allen to be most amusing, and decides to give him a choice, he can die now, or become one of them, but before Allen is made to decide, the monster says hill give him a taste of his power and then let him decide.

3. After being bitten into by his demonic oppressor Allen is taken to a dark and seedy nightclub where he is forced to fight against a group of strangers, it is here that Allen begins to understand the abilities that he would gain should he chose to become a monster. He finds that he would have the ability to control people through a kind of possession as he uses this ability to kill the group of me he is pitted against. As Allen is killing these men, he is not in control of his body, he is there, in his mind, but his body is acting of its own accord, forcing him to bear witness as it commits these horrible acts. After slaughtering the men Allen wakes up home in his bed, where he wonders if it had all been a dream.

4. Allen gets up and goes to class as normal wondering if he dreamt up what had just happened. Throughout this part of the story Allen notices that no matter what or how much he eats, he is always still hungry. In this part of the story you learn that Allen was betrayed by a woman he once loved, and that is part of the reason he is as depressed and cynical as he is. He is lonely and believes that nobody really cares for and understands him, which would explain his outlook on women. Allen ends up being forced to be social and go out to a bar by Christopher and this is where he meets Pikarra (very important character) Pikarra is very beautiful and free spirited. She has an openness and quirkiness about her that makes it easy for Allen to open up and speak to her. Through their conversations Allen begins to feel like Pikarra is the only person in the world that truly understands him, that he can connect with and relate to on a deeper and more intimate level (by intimate I don’t mean sexually).

5. The next night as Allen and Pikrra are eating dinner at a diner, two gang members come in the place and start shooting, Allen ends up shot and Pikarra tries her hardest to save him and ends up shot in the process. Pikarra dies, but Allen does not, as he finds out that the events of the other night were not a dream. He kills Pikarras murderers, and uses her death as a means of excusing or justifying the choice of becoming a monster.

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