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[azurelunatic]

I wasn't sure I could even start writing Darkside Knightmares as a book, but eventually I got my head in the right place.

It has always been anime to me. Eventually it became anime from the Cracked Phoenix universe. Sometime in the past three days, it started to be the original novel that the anime is based on. (The anime may whitewash Mithi though I hope it will not; the images from the anime in my head have yet to catch up with Mithi taking on a life of her own. The first vision of her was light skinned and slender; Mithi is actually brown skinned and sturdy enough to bludgeon and block with her body. Also she is short. Miri was one of those waifish blue-haired anime ladies. No resemblance except face and maybe hair.) After the anime, there is a manga series.

Our universe may have to content itself with the book. But that is how I got my head into it.

Comments

[konsectatrix]

Hah, neat. Is this unusual for you? How does it compare to how you normally work? Pretty much everything I write plays out as images, as a scene in a show or movie first. Or I write with some bit of my head already pondering how it would translate to a screen. It has its pros and cons, I guess. (My excuse is that it's because I was originally trained in graphic arts and animation, and then sorta drifted to writing from there.)

[azurelunatic]

I usually start with a character or a moment and build around that. When I'm working later, it usually comes out as dialogue which I add blocking to as if it were a play. I usually don't get enough of the surrounding area to be able to describe it well enough to animate from that, but this one seems to almost be coming in with gifsets from the anime. I think the anime bits are definitely improving the draft, because there is a lot more sensory flavor in the draft.