I know, I know..

I've been neglecting the site, I know.. It seems throwing out all of those long samples drained my creative-ness. I had a friend over for quite a while during this hiatus, too, so there was a bit of mental-overload on anime... Watching all of Evangelion (minus the movies, thank God) in one sitting tends to melt the brains. And, unfortunately for many reasons, I got another idea two nights ago, something aside from Rhia (*gasp!*) that's been demanding my attention. I've been having trouble continuing the first novel anyway, so perhaps breaking away for a week or two until I get bored with this project would help me get back on track.

So, what is this big new idea? I'm not really sure if I should say on here or not. Then again, the pictures for it are in the gallery... Well, if I change my mind about having that assosciated with The Author, I'll just delete everything. Aren't enough of you reading this now anyway.

I'm not sure how many of you reading this ever heard of or watched Rainbow Brite back in the eighties. Well, my parents didn't let me watch tv normally, but instead rented a ton of cartoons for me. Of course, they handily set up two VCRs and recorded the cartoons while I watched them, so I have quite the abundance of old eighties cartoons and movies still on VHS... Including eleven of the thirteen Rainbow Brite episodes and the movie. About three or four days ago, I threw around the amusing idea of turning the cute little Rainbow Brite into an anime character, just a simple drawing, like fan art. Well, I did that...then...got the crazy idea to do a fan manga -_-;; Well, I've drawn out just about all the good guys, and am working on the bad guys today. Yeah, I know, I'm pathetic. And of course, this morning, I got the even stupider idea to do the same thing for an old children's book series, The Boxcar Children. Who knows.. One thing I do know is that this won't be a waste. I intend to do a manga for the early days of Rhia and Jason for kids once my stuff is known, so doing this will help me a lot in learning how to set up pages, condense storylines, direct different panels, etc. Not to mention my drawing ability is going to be greatly tested throughout the little project. And, hey, if I get good at it, and enjoy it, and it's any good overall, who knows what kind of PR I could get with it. That is, if I keep it under the name of The Author. Which is kind of a bad name for a manga artist. We'll see. I'm not sure if I'll put it up on the web anytime soon. I don't want to end up like all you poor manga artists slaving over the frames trying to pull a page together for the deadline. I may get a whole chapter done and put it up or pass it around among friends. We'll just have to see if it gets anywhere at all. I do know, also, that by focusing on one project, my mind gets excercise and is able to think up things for other projects. This may help the KChronicles yet.