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I'm going into this week with a clear goal: Finish the second half of the LukeKen script so I can let it rest for a short time before looking over it again to find things to fix.

...I often wondered how long is long enough? By the next day I find lines to tidy up, after a week I see scenes to condense, and after a whole month I'll see an entire book to scrap and start over. (That happened with this script in fact.) I listened to On Becoming a Novelist last week. In one chapter he brings up the importance of leaving a manuscript be. But as a novelist he spoke of months, even years! I think that's incredible writers will wait that long to get their book as good as it can be before sending it to an editor for even more possible fixes or rejections.

But that flies in the face of webcomics, monthlies, especially zines and fanbooks, which are supposed to be made off the cuff and out of love. I know the panic of finishing a fancomic within a couple months or a week, but I wonder how webcomic writers will write their longform series where weekly or semi-daily is their schedule.

I drew a weekly longform comic for a while years ago; but I had the privledge of it being a completed story written by my amazing friend. I haven't had the struggle to get a page or chapter from writing to drawing in a short deadline. I admire those webcomic authors so much--I think the stress of not knowing where my story will go would get to me. I remember during my webcomic days authors would restart series because they thought of a better flow to their comic. I think it's a thing unique to webcomics and it's fun and reassuring you can do what you want! Comics are fun, when you don't agonize about them too much.