Here's a little teaser about what this story is about. I need to get it out of my brain before it drives me insane.
This story wants to be about everything. It has so much that not even my main character knows how the fuck it all fits together. Here's how we're looking at it: "Imagine you need to solve a puzzle and the pieces are scattered all over the world and you have to go looking for them. To make it even harder, the puzzle doesn't have a picture. It's made of memories and moments from your life."
There is a scene that goes from listening to Elvis to battling a Norwegian lake spirit called "The Nokken" to looking at the Northern Lights in an abandoned castle. It deals with what a first crush feels like, sibling rivalry, circus people, murdering people, vampires, ice magic, all of the things!
It's like my brain is throwing up. I came up with an entire system of how magic works and it sounds a little bit like Avatar. Like "air bending" avatar, not the blue people movie.
This is my life right now. It is coffee and an imaginary bird yelling at me. Because once a character is in my head, it never shuts up. This dude in particular hasn't shut up since 2010.
Explanation of this last panel: I was driving home from getting beer and groceries when Hozier came on. I like singing songs at the top of my lungs and sometimes I forget just how easily sound travels through the windows of a car, even when they are closed.
And when the song ended, I got out of the car and found out I had an audience.
Sorry you had to hear those vulture screeches coming from my car, woman in the parking lot. I had to make the voices shut up for a little while. There's a pelican and it's telling me not to do bad things to it. It wants to be a trapeze artist.
I swear to god, I am a normal person. I've kept the same job for a full year! That's proof I can function in the real world, right?
That's the sound of me slow-clapping.
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