Bodysuit 23 #219

(I did this entire page without Cooper's help except the storyboard, so I imagine shit will change on this page down the road.)

So first off, yeah, that's the same first panel as #204. I am a horrible person who deserves a long, painful death. In my mind originally I had something similar as an establishing shot as they walk to Kevin's, then I remembered I already drew one, so I decided to take that panel, modify Elaine, add Kevin, remove Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and added Donkey Kong Country because I've been listening to this while I worked on the comic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru59Lwgzl6M

The past two days I at work I was working on Episode 4 where this one scene occurs that I've been struggling to write. It involved Todd, Dallas, and Clarisse (WHO COULD THAT BE!?!?!!?) going to Todd's grandparents, which was once a large ranch, but as they got too old to run it they just live on the land. This allowed for a large area for some magical girl going ons and fighting to occur. But man, I struggled as a mother fucker trying to get shit down. From the road trip down I-35 W toward Waco to arriving and talking to Todd's grandma. It was a fucking bitch.

Now, you may be asking why I'm spoiling this stuff to you? Because about two hours before I went home for the day, I trashed all of it. It was about 7 pages of work going over 1.2k words or something like that. Instead, I changed the scenario and managed to write about 6 pages worth of content to replace it. Basically writing about 90% of what took me about 2 days of writing on/off and smashing my head into the tea kettle that sits at the edge of my desk that serves no purpose within 2 hours.

Moral of the story: if you're writing and come upon writer's block, it might be easier to just completely change an entire section and delete what you've written and come up with something new that just rolls right off the tips of your fingers.