Making More Informed Decisions About the Webcomic

I like revising and updating my webcomic hashtags/keywords. Had ‘public schools’ as one but, after going through a manga/manwha/manhua site, will be changing to ‘school life’.

This will be more inclusive since my #webcomic will be involving scenes and situations in an educational environment. Many of my characters are educators. My protag and the rest of the cast often discuss their school memories or what they're experiencing now. 

Also, the webcomic won't just be in public schools, but private(parochial) schools, academies, colleges, universities, technical/vocational schools, HBCUs, boarding schools, PWIs, and satellites. 

Social media in rough sketches

I can't believe I was panicking how to recreate my social media interfaces from rough sketch to digital piece. But once I played around with the templates just in MS Paint alone, it became easier. 

I didn't even plan on fixing the avatar, but once I got into fixing the social media buttons, the rest of the edits made sense!

And even though this is just 1st-stage digital work, if I can get this familiar, it won't be a problem later. Especially as I play around with later programs such as Medibang and Krita.

I actually erased the hashtag symbols and used lines from Paint templates. And then I erased my handwritten rectangles and ovals to use the templates... What a difference!

There will be more posts! And also updates to Handdrawnbycarmenjr on Insta! 

See you next time, dear readers!

Some digital alterations

Worked on a few pages and so far, so good.  Here is a photo of the original. 

Here is a screenshot of the digital alteration.

With Camp NaNo, I'm halfway there!

Dear Self:


When deciding to work on two simultaneous projects at once, making sure all your ducks are in a row still doesn't guarantee satisfaction.

I have one story continuing from last Camp NaNoWriMo April 2019, Oak & Ash with Bone, which is considered high/epic fantasy.

And this Camp NaNoWriMo July 2019, I'm working on another story that is working-titled The Firefly Crown Cycle (the "official first" story in the series published by e-anthology Anthrozine) that takes place 12-20 years later.

It is tentatively-titled The Queen in Spite of Herself/The Lion Rampant. Also titling the chapters.

The photo to my left shows the current journals I'm gleaning from in order to get this work on board.

If you want to read Firefly Crown online, you can go to my publication blog The Angry Goblin at Wordpress!

I am halfway through and already feel I might not make my word count, but, I would rather have the outlines and drafts typed out so I can edit and revise for later.
I'm exhausted and will do more blogging. Take care!

It's Summer Clean Up!

It's that time of year again! When things need to be cleaned up.

I did some book-culling.

Files between the 1999-2003:
Found some old research paperwork.
Found some old story drafts. A lot of my earlier science fiction and fantasy stories.
I know what I found can be updated.

Found some editorial comments and pages of exchanges. I'll prepare those images and blog posts to show what I've learned in the following days.

Bear with me, Dear Readers.