Work Status Update: ESSAY WORK and SKETCHING....

Hi dear readers!

Busy as a bee lately. Been doing some browsing on various trade magazine-esque sites for research, Twitter viewing and reading to check on some of my favorite peeps.

As for my workload, I'm hoping to do some more sketches, which probably won't get scanned or posted at all today (takes too much time), but that might get made. I already did SOME drawing, but am hoping to do more.

At the top of my priority is is to do something anime-industry related. And at the top of my list is an essay I'm going to be drafting later today.

The topic?

                                                       Defining Anime.

Yes, that will probably be the title.

I feel this issue is important, seeing as how much industry veterans argue about it online right alongside publishing companies, Japanese artists, studios, and distributors, networks, and the fans. I'm no stranger to essays. I've written over 100 essays in the past, usually about purely philosophical things like Change and  Brotherhood. Writing essays for career subjects like anime is brand new territory for me. I look forward to writing it, just like I look forward to writing everything else I write.

In terms of my writing online, I break my writing work up into segments. If it's not a big deal to me, like a tweet, or random short blog entry for instance, I'll write it as a post to my message board post, twitter account, or Blog, On The Spot (OTS).

If something that I write is more planned or structured, like a story, journal offline, script for spec TV animation or comics, an online review for AnimeTV, or speculative fiction, I'll put a considerable amount of work into a pre-production process. Like an artists does preliminary sketches, for my writing I write preliminary drafts, to get a good feel of the content and form of my writing. I don't have a set word count quota for the day. I write however much I need to most of the time. When you've written over a million words in your lifetime like I have offline, you can afford to take such luxuries.

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To Be Continued...